on 1/24/05 6:32 PM, Jud Spencer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 1/24/05 5:30:10 PM, "Eric Welch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> If it weren't for a great little program called Entourage Email Archive, I >> would not use Entourage at home, period. Having my email in a Filemaker >> database might not be the best way to go, but it sure beats losing >> everything. So, what hope do we have that maybe in the next version of >> Office they'll go back to an mbox format? > > Isn't Filemaker a database? Doesn't it have the same potential issues?
I am going to guess so. > What chance is there that Entourage will use mbox format? Almost zero. Using > mbox wouldn't solve the design problem that Apple has created with > Spotlight. Mbox won't work with Spotlight either. But what could happen is there became a plugin so to speak for Entourage. I am guessing here, but spotlight must have some database it looks all this stuff up in. If every incoming and outgoing email also sent a copy of that data into the spotlight database, then we could search on this. Of course, there would have to be a option to fully resync this as well. I am thinking a 3rd party may even be able to pull this off, but it may be too slow, at least on the initial sync, once you did that, applescripts could probably send the data to spotlights database. The question is on message retrieval, can you link to a message outside Entourage? I know each message gets a ID, but I am not sure how you would click on a list of files in spotlight and get Entourage to track that message down. I think it is possible, I am sure the devs are exploring something like this, at least I hope. -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Scott Haneda Tel: 415.898.2602 <http://www.newgeo.com> Fax: 313.557.5052 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Novato, CA U.S.A. -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
