> Although it is known that Spotlight will not index the Entourage database, > it might make sense to export individual emails that have an assigned > Project to their respective project folders in the Finder, thereby allowing > indexing of those (probably important) emails by Spotlight.
I did something a bit simpler. I imported all the entourage mail into Mail. Then I backed up my entourage archive and got rid of all my old mail in entourage. Most of the emails I'm interested in looking for are old, and I use Mail as the app to read those emails (and as a way to test mail and see if it's ready for a jump from Entourage). Entourage is basically now just my inbox/outbox with new stuff. The benefit here is that now my entourage searches are also much quicker as 1 have just a few hundred emails instead on several gigs. I was thinking I could go even further by creating an Automator script to take read emails in entourage and export them to mail... maybe doing this once a week. It's kludgy but after 3 days of using Spotlight on my email archive, I never want to go back to the several minute wait I had when doing an entourage search. Also Spotlight, at least for me, is changing the way I use my archived data. Now it is really accessible, and I'm starting to use it all the time as opposed to once in a blue moon. I would still rather have an updated Entourage with a spotlight plugin, but mail itself is also getting pretty darned good! all best, raul http://www.mexicanpictures.com -- 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/>
