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 - script creation of network calendar event I've just re-discovered this fine news server while researching a very irritating problem. I'm hoping that my findings on this issue can help a few others out. in exchange I'm looking for a little AppleScript assistance. _ the story _ on our Exchange calendar, Owners were being locked out of editing anything posted by the other Owners. we worked around it for a couple of weeks, but then I was locked out of my own posts -- no event updates allowed! I dumped my cache and resync'd a few times, playing around with things each time. after reading the article linked below*, I was led to settings that were causing the server to view events as user-specific. in our case, it was two options turned on by default: reminders and busy status. by turning these settings off, suddenly all was well for everyone. *<http://blogs.msdn.com/entourage/archive/2005/09/21/472436.aspx> _ the script _ to make this work-around doable for all posting members, my goal is to use AS to take a few steps out of the process. here's the idea: the user will go to the calendar in question (myCal), select the day, and select the script from the script menu. the script will bring up the dialog for a new untitled event on myCal with the reminder turned off (regardless of the user's local preference), and busy status set to Free. I believe everything else can use the default settings. I have basic AS experience, but not with any MS apps (other than brief exposure to Word). can anyone get me started? we're working with Entourage 2004 11.2.5 (060620) on an Exchange Server for which I have no information -- the corp IT department is notoriously unhelpful toward our Mac-centric department. I'm on Panther (10.3.9) and most other users are on Tiger. if you've read this far, thanks! _ DA Holman _ Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73155
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 - Default email address is inconsistent I have three email accounts set up on Entourage, and I've set the personal account to be the default. It works fine if I start a new message: the pull-down list in the From field is set to that email address automatically. The problem comes in whenever I reply to a message. The From field then defaults to my work address (the last on the list) rather than my personal one (the first), even when the original message was sent to my personal address! Shouldn't there be a way to default to whatever address the email was sent to? I should add that I'm having my personal email forwarded from my Yahoo account (to my work domain and then) to an IMAP account. Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73153
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 - Microsoft Entourage not opening. Hi, I am having the problem with entourage and word application th following error shows " Microsoft Entourage has encountered a proble and needs to closed. We are sorry for the inconvenience. I am using G5 @1.8 ghz the Os 10.4.8. //Ra -- rajappl ----------------------------------------------------------------------- rajapple's Profile: http://www.officehelp.in/member.php?userid=589 View this thread: http://www.officehelp.in/showthread.php?t=131577 Posted from - http://www.officehelp.i Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73152
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 - Changed OWA access and Entourage is not working In my company re-booted Exchange server and changed OWA log-in. Before re-boot OWA log-in was user-name (example: tony) pass after re-boot OWA log-in is user-name@domain.si (example tony@poteza.si) pass and after that @poteza.si was added to log-in to OWA my entourage settings stopped to work. I got messages as -18500 or -18599. I think the problem lies there since Entourage uses webDAV. Any help? Matej Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73147
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 - Scheduling in Entourage I am using Entourage as a client on my Microsoft Exhange Server. When I create a calendar item and try to invite other users, the scheduling function does not work. I cannot see any of my scheduled items, or the invited users' free or busy times. The calendar jsut shows gray for them and for me . . and the legend indicates that this means "no information" The information I find about Entourage indicates that the scheduling function is supposed to work. Has anyone solved this issue? Thanks. Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73146
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 - How to empty the junk mail folder As it stands, it looks like Entourage flags junk messages, changes their color, and puts some sort of symbolic link to them in the Junk folder on the (IMAP) server. They still appear in the inbox, albeit grayed out a bit. Unfortunately, I can't find any way to actually ERASE these junk mails, other than creating a rule that runs every X days or whatever. Apple Mail seems to handle this a lot more intelligently. It MOVES the messages to the Junk folder, so you don't have to keep looking at them in your inbox, and provides an Erase Junk Mail command that cleans out the Junk Box after you have suitably scanned it for false positives. Does anyone know whether it is possible to get this kind of behavior in Entourage (messages not visible in inbox, erase them on command, not with a timed rule)? My wife uses Entourage and doesn't want to switch to Apple Mail, so I need to get this sorted out for her. Thanks JEH Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73144
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 - Entourage Mail Sync with Blackberry problem I use MS Office for Mac in a Windows network environment. Entourage is my email client on the Exchange Server. I use it for contacts, calendar and email. We also use a Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) to wirelessly sync all of the foregoing info to blackberries. Since my conversion at the office to the Mac, all blackberry synchronization has worked perfectly, with one exception. Calendar and Contacts sync both directions, meaning that creating or deleting a contact or calendar item in Entourage is synchronized wirelessly to the blackberry, and the creation or deletion of a contact or calendar item on the blackberry is synchronized back to the Entourage. Entourage Mail presents the problem. The creation or deletion of a mail item on the blackberry is synchronized to Entourage, BUT the creation or deletion of a mail item in Entourage IS NOT synchronized to the blackberry. I don't believe Exchange or BES are the problem, because if I connect to my email via Outlook Web Access and create or delete an email there, IT IS synchronized to the blackberry. This leaves Entourage as the only culprit. Entourage is fully updated to the current version 11.3.3 If you have any information, please help. Thanks. Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73143
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 - Synching a phone with entourage? Does anyone know if there are any phones for Verizon that can synch with Entouage? Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73142
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 - Entourage 2004: Strategy to Backup/Archive Mail with Local Folders? Hi, Like many, I need to begin cleaning-up and clearing out old emails and with attachments. I use several POP3 accounts and a Hotmail (IMAP) account. After receiving new emails, they are moved into Local Folders (some with subfolders) under "Folders on My Computer" with the exception of one Local Folder in my Hotmail account. In the past, when I've archived/restored--the Local Folders structure was destroyed. My objective is to archive all Local Folders with their associated emails and sub folders. And, I would like to preserve the Local Folder structure, dump the resulting archive to external media (CDs), and restore if/when needed. The restore would result in the Local Folder(s) being restored with all associated content and email integrity maintained. Also, I would like to archive previous years Sent Mails, too. Can anyone provide some successful strategies and/or software that can help? Thanks, John Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73140
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 - Signature problems...getting old signatures to go away. I've set up signatures for an office. They are .jpgs that get included at the bottom of each reply. The problem is, as the office staff replies over and over again, they notice five or ten attachments piling up. These are, of course, the signatures getting sent over and over again and appearing several times in the email. I'm trying to figure out: 1) How to AUTOMATICALLY erase previous signatures and only insert the jpg once each reply. 2) Automatically move the single signature up to the newest reply. 3) Do this for a group that really doesn't understand computing/doesn't have time to do it manually. Certainly, I don't care if there is only one logo (signature) that shows up. I just want it to be at the end of the most recent reply. I'd tell them to just delete the attachments to fix this, but honestly, I don't think they'll "get it." Any help is appreciated. Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73138
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 - Signatures, multiple files, replies, over and over I've set up signatures for an office. They are .jpgs that get included at the bottom of each reply. The problem is, as the office staff replies over and over again, they notice five or ten attachments piling up. These are, of course, the signatures getting sent over and over again and appearing several times in the email. I'm trying to figure out: 1) How to AUTOMATICALLY erase previous signatures and only insert the jpg once each reply. 2) Automatically move the single signature up to the newest reply. 3) Do this for a group that really doesn't understand computing/doesn't have time to do it manually. Certainly, I don't care if there is only one logo (signature) that shows up. I just want it to be at the end of the most recent reply. I'd tell them to just delete the attachments to fix this, but honestly, I don't think they'll "get it." Any help is appreciated. Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73137
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 - Automatic Email Stationary WITH attachments > This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --B_3251225654_611777 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hi, I was wondering if there was a way to have stationary have a document automatically attached. When I get an estimate appointment for my work, I send an email with the confirmation of the time and day written in stationary. Then I have five documents PDFs. I would like to automatic the attachment of these PDFs. Is it possible? John Los Angeles, CA --B_3251225654_611777 Content-type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Automatic Email Stationary WITH attachments</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> Hi,<B= R> I was wondering if there was a way to have stationary have a document automatically attached. When I get an estimate appointment for my work, I send an email with the confirmation of the time and day written in stationary. Then I have five documents PDFs. I would like to automatic the attachment of these PDFs. Is it possible? John Los Angeles, CA </BODY> </HTML> --B_3251225654_611777-- Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73132
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 - dot mac and erage database > This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --B_3251224274_529879 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit Hi, A buddy of mine said he read an article that you could put an erage database on Dot mac and basically share it over the net like an Exchange. Is this possible? I¹m looking to share the database across five computers in different locations. Thank you, John Los Angeles Powerbook & iMac G5 Mac OS X 10.4.8 Office Mac 11.2.5 --B_3251224274_529879 Content-type: text/html; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>dot mac and erage database</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> Hi,<B= R> A buddy of mine said he read an article that you could put an erage databas= e on Dot mac and basically share it over the net like an Exchange. Is this possible? I’m looking to share the database across five computers in different = locations. Thank you, John Los Angeles Powerbook & iMac G5 Mac OS X 10.4.8 Office Mac 11.2.5 </BODY> </HTML> --B_3251224274_529879-- Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73130
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 - Moving Calendar Events In the Week View generally I can move Events to different times or day by dragging it. However, sometimes the Event can not be moved, in that upon release it bounces back to the original time and/or date. I do not share my calendar. I do sync it with my Palm using Missing Sync. I can find no patterns as to conditions that lock the Event (I can move it by opening the Event and changing the time or date.) Any suggestions... Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73129
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 - Calendar help... I am new to mac... How do I print a two page column calendar from entourage...I can do it from my old PC... Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73124
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 - Error 3260 - please help Hello, I am facing this problem for more than 3 days so I will be happy for any comment/ideas. I am using Microsoft Entourage 2004 (version 11.3.2 build 061213) and Mac OS X 10.4.8. On the server side is Microsoft Exchange 2003 (6.0.3790.1830). Problem is with Global Address List (GAL). E-mails I can send and receive without problem. I tried access to GAL via Microsoft Outlook 2007 (12.0.4518.1014) from my PC and it works without problem. Our GAL is accessible only from inside so I have to be connected via VPN. When I am trying to to type anything inside SEARCH filed I always got following error: Entourage cannot connect to the server. Verify that your computer is connected to the network. Error -3260 Unfortunately I tried ping to that server and it response in 40 ms delay. I tried telnet on ports 25, 80, 110 and 389, everything was successfully connected. I tried Outlook Web Access including searching in GAL at everything works (via Safari web browser). I have also remote access via Terminal Services to the Exchange server so I double check that Exchange server is running. Anyone can please help me what's going on in this case with Microsoft Entourage? Thanks for help in advance Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73119
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 - All Day Events - 1 day off... All, I'm seeing some strange behavior for all day events when viewing the same calendar (hosted on an exchange server) from Outlook and from Entourage. Case 1: Create all day event in Outlook - when viewed in Entourage it is displayed 1 day early Case 2; Create all day event in Entourage - when viewed in Outlook all is good. Case 3: Edit event created in case on in Entourage - put it in the day you want it to show up (move forward by one day). When viewing event in Outlook - it is now a 2 day event starting on the day you want it to be on - but ending on the next day. (the all day event check mark is now unchecked - in outlook) Case 4: Fix it on Outlook (make it an all day event for the day you want it to be) and woops - it's back to one day early in Entourage... Work around - all day events MUST be created and edited from Entourage... Why? -MM Mark Montañez Mark.Montanez@gmail.com Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73107
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 - Sent Mail Sync Issue I use Entourage (fully updated to version 11.3.3 and connect to an Exchange Server. We also use a Blackberry Enterprise Server, and all my email, contacts and calendar items are wirelessly synchronized to the blackberry. I have tested the synchronization, and it happens perfectly, both directions - meaning that if I create or delete a calendar entry on the blackberry, then it synchronizes to Entourage; likewise, if I create or delete a calendar entry in Entourage, then it synchronizes to teh blackberry; the same is true with contacts. My only issue is with Entourage Mail. Items sent on the blackberry sync to the sent folder in Entourage, BUT items sent from Entourage DO NOT sync to the blackberry. If I access my email through Outlook Web Access and send an email, that DOES sync to the blackberry - meaning that Entourage is the factor causing the failure to sync sent mail. Has anyone else experienced this? Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73105
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 - Office 2008 for Mac press release "Microsoft® Office 2008 for Mac" and it's coming in the second half of 2007. Read the Press Release: <http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/jan07/01-09MacworldPR.mspx> Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73103
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 - Office 2004 11.3.3 update NEW!!! Update for Office 2004 only. Time Zone bug is fixed!!! Exchange users need to read warning before installing. This update includes all of the improvements released in all previous Office 2004 updates. Quit any applications that are running, including virus-protection applications, all Office applications, Microsoft Messenger for Mac, and Office Notifications, because they might interfere with installation. This update does not include an uninstall feature. If you are concerned that this update could be problematic, duplicate your Office 2004 folder and stuff it. This way you could revert to the previous build if there are problems. <http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx?pid=download&location=/mac/down load/Office2004/Office2004_1133.xml&secid=4&ssid=32&flgnosysreq=True> -- Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP Entourage Help Page <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/> The Entourage Blog lists the EHP as one of the top five Microsoft Entourage resources. <http://blogs.msdn.com/entourage/> Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73101
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 - DST Bug Squashed Office update 11.3.3 has just been released, including (amongst other security and stability fixes) a cure for the DST change that affects calendar events in March for some USA users. It's a combo-updater, so weighs in at a massive 57mb! Get It through 'check for updates' under the Help menu of any office application. -- Barry Wainwright Microsoft MVP (see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details) The Entourage User's WebLog has moved! For hints, tips and troubleshooting go to <http://www.barryw.net/weblog/> Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73099
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 - Announcements from MacWorld Microsoft made a press release disclosing the name of the next version of office and when it is due... <http://www.barryw.net/weblog/> -- Barry Wainwright Microsoft MVP (see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details) The Entourage User's WebLog has moved! For hints, tips and troubleshooting go to <http://www.barryw.net/weblog/> Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73098
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 - Moving from Apple Mail to Entourage Hello, Is it possible to remove the "Folder On My Computer" I have set up an Exchange account and would like to get rid of the inbuilt folder above. Also, comparing Apple's Address Book to Entourage; one of our users has commented that the Address Book seems to hold more information per individual than Entourage; is this true? Plus, are you able to sync Apple's Address Book with a Blackberry whilst syncing Entourage's Address Book, or is it one or the other? Many thanks for any help on these questions. Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73089
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 - Help! Lost Calendar icon! In Calendar in Entourage 2004, a small icon used to appear on the left of an event window if text was entered in the main window of the event page, just as a bell appears if you have set a reminder for an event. All these icons have disappeared from my Calendar, and now it is impossible to see which calendar events have text written in their main window without opening them. Can anyone please help in suggesting a way to get these icons to reapperar? thanks. Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73088
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 - Second email on entourage This still doesn't work. I have checked and re checked the setting betwwen the dominent account and the next account and the second is either the same ad or mimics the first. Earthlink has no idea why, except that perhaps my name and address are not properly recorded with entourage itself. Do you have any ideas. This is a serious problem because the second email is used by clients and I cannot get their messages. Becky Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73081
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 - one click to see inbox messgaes? I use to be able to see my inbox messages by just clicking on the message. Now I need to double click on them to open the message. What did I do to change the one click view? Thanks Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73080
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 - I'd like to print all received messages! Someone sends me an e mail with five jpegs.Sometimes I hit command P and all 5 print. Others times just one comes out. What is the trick to get all of them printing consistently? I have print pictures checked. Kevs OS 10.4.7 Office 2004 Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73078
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 - Need to sync address book with entourage I have been using the address book for awhile and all my updated contacts are in it. Just added Entourage -- how do I get the contacts from the address book to Entourage? Sorry if this is a silly question :( I searched and it seems like everyone is doing the opposite so thought I would just post. Thanks! Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73077
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 - Incoming mail goes to Deleted folder REcently I had to raise the level in Entourage of my spam filter to get rid of the darn stuff. Unfortunately, every incoming email, except for the ones that asked if I wanted to create a rule for their domain, now ends up in the deleted folder. THe same holds true for all my reply email. I ahve now removed the spam filter protocol from Entourage but the problem persists. Has this happened to anyone else? Solutions? I'm wasting more time now dragging emails from deleted to inbox than I did before the filter protocols were altered. Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73073
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 - How to script Entouage Setup (MS Exchange 2003) We are going to be switching over from a standard POP3 email service to an MS Exchange 2003 service and most of all our users are on Mac's using Entourage 2004. I was hoping to write a custom script that I could push out (or give the the desktop support staff) that would create a new mail account entry with the Entourage client with all the server settings. Any ideas? Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73068
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 - Lost Entourage updates after crash I have a Mac G4 powerbook running OS 10.4.8 I have Entourage (10.3.2) and Word (11.3) installed from Office 2004. The problem: my computer crashed recently and Apple installed a new logic board. Everything works fine as before the crash EXCEPT my Entourage which seems to have lost some updates. The key function I'm missing--and it's a great one--is the ability to have emails come up in my Spotlight searches. I have tried to go online to get updates but they won't install, which makes me think I need some earlier updates to enable the one that enables the Spotlight searches. Or...maybe the updates are in my computer somewhere but are not working (???). Anyone have any ideas on this? Thanks. Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73067
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 - create task from contact There is a clever script that quickly allows you to create a task from a message. While I realize I could select the contact, hold on teh link icon, select "link to new," and select task; this does not make the category and project the same, nor does it automatically put in a title to the task (ideally name and phone number). is there a library of these things or do I need to teach myself the script language? Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73066
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 - Start-up disc is full When trying to rebuild my email I got the message that my "start up disc is full" What does this mean? I keep trying to delete old emails and they pop up again in my email list. How do I delete them permanently? Thanks, Becky Richardson Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73063
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 - Exchange Pop and 11.3.2 I use 10.4.8 and PPC G5 and Office 2004. I had not updated Office for a while, but did recenty use 11.3.0 and 11.3.2. Now I find I cannot access either POP or Exchange emails. I can send from both POP and Exchange accounts within Entourage, but I cannot receive anything. For the POP account it tries to 'connect to pop.mail.yahoo.co.uk' for a while then I get get this message - 'An operation on the server timed out. The server may be down, overloaded, or there may be too much net traffic'. For the Exchange account it just stays unconnected. I tried re-installing the original version of Entourage, but then I couldn't open my identity (new format I guess after update) and I cannot afford to lose all my information. Help please! I am desperately dependent on my old email database.... thanks in advance Nick Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73060
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 - Entourage attachments and an IMAP server I am unable to open attachments now that I am receiving my email on an IMAP server. The same attachments can be opened if I email to an account using a POP server. Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73059
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 - Dragging from Entourage Task list to Calendar? Ok, here is a simple question. Can you drag a task from the task list in Entourage over to a day on the calendar? Is that possible? Let me know, all you techies. Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73054
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 - Dragging from Entourage Task list to Calendar? Ok, here is a simple question. Can you drag a task from the task list in Entourage over to a day on the calendar? Is that possible? Let me know, all you techies. Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73053
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 - finding new contacts since a certain date Does entourage have a way to find contacts that have been entered since a certain date? Or a way to sort them by date entered. There is a date modified field, so I can get a list of contacts that have been changed (which does include new ones), however I can not find a way to tease out the new ones. I'd like to do this periodically, so I can add them to my gmail white list. -dave Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73047
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 - Calendar events lost icon! Within the Calendar in Entourage 2004, a small icon used to appear next to a Calendar event (on the left of the event window) if text was entered in the main window of the event page, just as a bell appears if you have set a reminder for an event. All these icons have disappeared from my Calendar, and now it is impossible to see which calendar events have text written in their main window without opening them. Can anyone please help in suggesting a way to get these icons to reapperar? thanks. Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73045
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 - Entourage X not transfering all my emails from a G4 to macpro intel dual core I just bought a new MacPro 2.33 G and transfered all my info from the old G4. Entourage did not transfer all my emails and I am having problems retrieving e-mail from my different accounts. It did not transfer my addresses either. How is Office x behaiving with the Mac Pros. I do not want to buy the new Office since I already have the x. Can I just buy an upgrade? Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73044
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 - Automatically Populates Person To Send Email To Hi - I'm trying to personalize a group email. I have a group. I am an email. I'd like to begin the email with a personalized salutation (Dear Bob or Sally or whatever) but can't seem to figure out how to do that. Any suggestions on how I can do this? I'm currently working in Entourage (obviously), but am open to other options/systems - just would like to try to accomplish my goal, above. Thanks, SueAnn Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73039
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 - MI5 Persecution: Dirk Gently on the Toronto Case Dirk was on the West Coast when he got the call. An old friend at the Toronto police department thought he would like to fly up and take a look at a homicide which had occurred the previous evening. He decided to skip the last day at the World Holistics conference and take the next plane out of San Francisco. The flight was bad; Dirk had been hit on the back of the head by the Newspaper trolley, the drinks trolley, the dinner trolley and now the gift trolley. When the hostesses weren?t trying to tear his arm off they pestered him to stop leaning into the aisle - ignoring the fact that the guy next to him was taking up one and a half seats. Air Canada used to be the flight which was so good you just didn?t wanna get off - on this occasion Dirk would be glad to see the back of the plane and the over sized alternative comedian wedged into the window seat. After breathing in a couple of lungfulls of crisp Canadian air Dirk took a taxi into town. There was a small group of demonstrators outside the MacDonalds and the taxi driver insisted on stopping on the opposite side of the street. ?Don?t Eat Meat? the placards read and the demonstrators chanted. A couple of policemen where stopping the crowd entering the restaurant itself - one held up his arm and challenged Dirk. A wave of the fax he had been sent and the policeman pushed open the door. There were few customers in the restaurant. Not surprising really with a demonstration going on outside, half the dining area roped off with tape and a dead body seated at one of the tables. ?Mr Gently sir? the officer in charge called out as he peeled one end of the tape off a column ?We were told not to touch anything til? you got here?. The body of the man slumped awkwardly in a chair. Then even a dead body would start getting uncomfortable in a MacDonalds chair after twenty minutes - and this one had been there for at least eighteen hours. Two back legs and the tail of a cat hung out of the man?s gaping mouth. Dirk turned to the officer, ?I suppose you are going to tell me this is the darndest thing you ever saw?? ?Ain?t this the darnd...?. The officer seemed annoyed that Dirk had second guessed him. ?We?re removing the body in a few minutes, so if you can get through as quick as possible? ?Many people eat cats in fast food restaurants?? Dirk asked and without waiting for an answer leant over the table to pick up an untouched burger. ?And what?s this?? he asked waving it in front of the officers face. ?It?s a Vedgie Burger? The waitress, who was cleaning one of the adjacent tables, shouted across. She walked over to Dirk. ?We started doing them because of that lot out there? she nodded towards the protesters who were pressing there faces against the windows ?They?re called Linda McCartney Vedgie burgers - ever heard of them?? Dirk suddenly felt faint, perhaps a combination of hunger and jet lag. ?This is deja vu all over again? he thought to himself. He glanced at policemen - at the badge on his shoulder ?OPD? but this wasn?t Ontario this was Toronto. OPD - Officially Pronounced Dead. It dawned on Dirk what was happening, he knew what he would see if he looked out of the window. Sure enough, there it was, the Volkswagen Beetle parked across the road - number plate 28IF - 28 IF Paul McCartney had lived. And amongst the lyrics of the song blaring out into the restaurant he could pick out the words ?I buried Paul?. Now it was though Dirk was viewing the whole scene though a TV screen. This was conspiracy. Not -a- conspiracy, or -the- conspiracy, but just plain conspiracy. ?You look faint - are you OK mister? The waitress asked. Dirk shook his head ?Probably a bit hungry? Then to economise on dialogue took out a pack of cigarettes and held it out towards the girl. She was about to take one but Dirk snatched the pack away, held it up to his mouth and drew out two cigarettes. He lit both then passed one of them to the girl. It was the closest he had come to a sexual encounter in three months. ?Want a Burger?? the waitress asked. Dirk looked down at the Vedgie Burger on the table. ?No thanks - just a plate of fries? The waitress walked away and Dirk looked around the room. Apart from a family seated in the far corner there was only one other person in the restaurant - and he wasn?t eating. The guy was about mid twenties and had straggling, shoulder length hair. On the table in front of him were lots of pieces of paper cut into squares. Every so often he would pick up a camcorder and pan it around the room and then, when he was finished, speak into a microphone which was attached to a tape recorder. Dirk walked over to where the man was sitting. The small pieces of paper had paragraphs of text written on them and were stuck to the top of table with blobs of mustard. Lines had been drawn, some solid some dotted, on the table top with a marker pen. The lines ran from one piece of paper to another. ?What are the lines for?? Dirk asked, realising straight away that ?What the hell are you doing?? would be more appropriate. ?You see? The man replied nervously ?The dotted lines are weak links and the solid lines are strong links. The dotted lines are things which are happening in the rest of the world and the solid lines are things which are happening to me. Now you see I draw over a dotted line, replacing it with a solid line, when I can link something back to me. Like this? The pen squeaked over the Formica and before Dirk could interrupt the man added. ?You see I lost my short term memory and, as a consequence have a very short attention span. I write down, record and film everything then put it all together later? ?So? Dirk interrupted. ?You filmed what happened here?? ?Yes, yes, it?s here on this tape? The man pushed the cassette across the table. On the label the words ?Grassy Knoll? had been crossed through and replaced with ?MacDonalds?. Suddenly the man sprung from his seat. Dirk turned and saw that the body was being removed on a stretcher. As it passed the man picked a small object off the edge of the stretcher itself. ?This is important? he said, laying a blood stained bullet on one of the small pieces of paper on the table. Suddenly the room was filled with a deafening throbbing sound as a Black Helicopter landed in the street outside. Two men in United Nations uniforms got out and collected the stretcher. Back at the table the long haired man was replacing all the dotted lines with solid ones. Dirk panicked and began to walk backwards at some speed. Barging through the swing doors he stumbled into the kitchen, tripped and felt himself sink slowly into a large vat. ?The guys fallen into the batter? Dick heard someone shout before he sunk below the surface. He came to sitting in a chair with the batter solidifying all over his body. He surveyed the room through two eye-holes someone had cut. Suddenly the chair on which he was sitting was picked up carried through the restaurant and out of the building. As the chair was being lifted and put into the back of a van, Dirk caught a glimpse of the waitress following him. ?Your fries mister, your plate o...?. The doors of the van shut and Dirk tried desperately to steady himself as it sped across town. Eventually the doors flew open and Dirk was flung into the road at which point the solidified batter shattered and set him free. Standing up he found himself outside the international departures terminal of Toronto airport. In the departure lounge Dirk had time to reflect on the day?s events. He had got caught up in the conspiracy theories and the haphazard welding together of pieces of irrelevant information. It was time to catch the person who was operating the bizarre cognitive engine which appeared in front of him like a fairground mirror, distorting any flaw it could find in his own, fragile, map of the real world. Dirk leant into the aisle of the plane as it took off for London. The oversized person next to him swung his arms violently as he complained about every thing from the supper in a plastic tray to the state of British politics. With a shaven head and a badly fitting suit the man looked as though he could have worked behind the reception desk of the Kremlin. However when he spoke he did so in a Liverpudlian accent. ?Me I blame the Con-serv-a-tive government, me. The Tour-rees. That-cher. Me. They need a good kicking? He jerked his feet forward and struck the seat in front with his Doc Martins. ?With these. Me Doc Martins. Doctor Martin?s, Doctor Martin?s, Doctor Martin?s Booots!? The phrase was now being sung over and over again as the man writhed in his seat and clicked his fingers. Dirk looked down at the boots and thought of the reaction most people used to deal with the paranoids at the end of the wire. A nice quick kick. ?Oi nutter - get some therapy?. This is the easy way out and perhaps the safest. After all there you are sat, alone, in front of the screen. No body language between you some paranoid. No way of telling if he really is some gibbering psycho. Look at it too long and you be drawn in. Fall into the tangled database of weird links with him. Who knows he may be watching you, reassembling and linking your experiences with his. How sure are you of you own cognitive threads. After all cognition is only a bug fix for a neurological system which was designed in a hurry - it?s abused by everyone from politicians to advertisers. If people really can convince each other that a bottle of washing up liquid is as exciting as an orgasm using just television God knows what they can do with a computer. Better to avoid the risk. A swift kick. After all if you?re Homophobic you put the boot in because you are scared of any ambiguity in your own sexuality - why not be Nutterphobic as well. Although Dirk would have liked to devoted time to tracking the culprit down he decided to let it rest. The Internet changed over the next twenty odd years. A lot of the people who used it went out and got lives. And those who already had lives burnt them away. The number of users had dwindled after someone had invented a C++ program, with truth as a variable, to deal handle politics and government. Dirk had already retired from finding old ladies cats with the help of obscure science when he got another call from Toronto. It was 4th March 2025 when he booked onto the Air Canada flight from Heathrow. The silver haired woman in the seat next to him painted bright red lipstick around her mouth. ?Of course it was no surprise to be offered the job after Claire Raynor retired? she sneered? After all I used to be a psychiatric nurse... Now if Blokes had periods they would understand...? By chance the taxi ride to Toronto mental hospital took him past the MacDonalds - where the whole thing had started. Of course it was barely recognisable having become a Church Of Scientology Vedgie Bar. Police in riot gear kept the two sets of demonstrators apart. Dirk didn?t really know what to expect when he got to the hospital. The girl at the reception desk directed him to a row of chairs in a wide well lit corridor. There was a strong smell of disinfectant, the furniture and the carpets were immaculately clean and behind the rows of teak veneer doors the ?nutters? were all safely locked away. For some reason Dirk started thinking about CompuServe forums. A tall blond woman in a white coat approached. ?Mr Gentle, I assume? ?Yes? Dirk replied shaking her by the hand. ?You?re the nurse who...? ?Doctor? She interrupted, ?Doctor Killfile? She led Dirk across the corridor towards one of the doors then stopped with her hand resting on the handle. ?Now you know about this person don?t you?? and after Dirk nodded she continued ?Don?t tell him anything about yourself - don?t let him get into you head. If he does he?ll screw it up? The door opened to reveal a frail man sitting in from of a TV screen. He had a keyboard on his lap and next to the television was a computer screen. Dirk glanced at the walls of the room and remembered that his settee at home need upholstering. The nurse left the room and the man looked up ?So you come to my daughters wedding and ask me to kill a man? he said in a dry cackling voice. ?Look? he continued, pointing at the screen, ?I know that man. They?re talking about me now - listen?. The man stared at Dirk. ?What?s your name? Are you one of my friends from the Internet? - Are the lambs still screaming Dirk?? Dirk, at first recoiled in horror, then felt a sense of anti climax. So this is what they hyped up to superstar status on the back of their own fears of madness. Dirk was reminded of the film ?A day on The Beach? where a submarine had set off to search a post nuclear World to track down a signal coming from a remote military base - only to find it was being sent by a Coke bottle half balanced on a Morse tapper. Outside the room the nurse waited for him. Because his nicotine craving had returned - and to avoid an awkward piece of dialogue - Dirk turned to her and asked . ?Patch?? Dirk took two nicotine patches from his wallet the first of which he stuck onto the inside of his arm. Stepping closer to Doctor Killfile he opened her white coat and slid his hand into the opening at the front of her dress. He pressed the patch onto her leg as close to the top of her inner thigh as he dare. She took a deep breath and then slowly breathed out. ?What Bogart could have done with these things? Dirk thought to himself. ?Is he crazy?? Dirk asked tilting his head back to towards the door. ?Who knows? Doctor Killfile replied ?We let him type away. He sees something on the TV in the morning and it keeps him busy all day. What he types doesn?t go anywhere it just stays on a mainframe in the basement. It can be read by anyone else in the building but that?s it. We got them all in here conspiracy theorists, racists, nationalists. They?ve created a world within a world really...? Her voice trailed away and she stared down the corridor for a while then added ?So long are two things are different neither will come to be in the other and so become at once both one and two.? Dirk gave her a puzzled look ?You mean their brains are fried?? ?Fried?? Killfile smiled at Dirk ?No that was Plato?. Then the smile fell from her face. ?You must remember, mister, plate o...? 756 Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73037
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 - MI5 Persecution: Security Service Tribunal Denies Security Service Tribunal Denies In June 1997 the Security Service Tribunal wrote to me regarding the complaint I had brought against MI5 in February. They say, The Security Service Tribunal have now investigated your complaint and have asked me to inform you that no determination in your favour has been made on your complaint. Again, I do not believe their denials. I think MI5 *has* taken the action against me as described, and is refusing to admit what they have done. To the best of my knowledge, the Security Service Tribunal has *never* found in favour of a complainant. This tends to strongly suggest that MI5 lies on a routine basis, and the Tribunal can't fulfil its functions in the face of Security Service falsehoods. 756 Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73036
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 - Task Requests from Outlook 2007 I need to be able to send a task request from Outlook 2007 to a user who is running Entourage 2004....and have Entourage show the item as a task. From my initial tests, the items show up in Entourage as an email with no way to accept the task. Is it possible to do this? What tricks are envolved? Do I have to have an Exchange server? Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73031
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 - Entourage 2004 can not open the identity? I backed up my database from my old mac and installed Entourage 2004 on my new tower and the database opened right up. I installed Entourage 2004 on my other work computer, though it will not open the database. It say that the identity can not be opened with this version of Entourage, or something like that. Both macs are running 2004. What is wrong? Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73029
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 - Entourage compression of photos I am a new mac user and am sending email work related through entourage wiht 10 photos I can not get them to compress so they will send. I have stuff it (trial version but it says full version) I checked the appropraite box under preferences. When I go to send the mail the compression option is greyed. My mac is a 10.4.8 . I downloaded the free trial of stuff it I am not sure what version that would be . Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73027
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 - Problem with Entourage 2004 Public Folders I just got a new apple computer and put Entourage 2004 on it. I have it connected to my Microsoft Exchange 2003 server and everything is working correctly with the exception of 'some' of the public folders. Out of 9 public folders, only 3 can be accessed correctly. I'm the owner of each but the other 6 public folders have 'greyed out' icons, I take it indicating some type of a problem but I can't find any information on why these would be greyed out 'disabled'??? I can't even drag them into the Favorites folder. Anyone ever see anything like this before? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks Martin Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73025
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 - Recommendation for PDA Phone? Has anyone had success syncing a pda phone with entourage. What do you recommend? I am using a powerbook G4 MacOS 10.3.9 with Entourage 2004. Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73024
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 - using Entourage calendar on other mac Hi, I have a MacBook Pro with an entourage calendar which I want to import on another mac (PPC) in entourage. I have tried exporting, with only the calendar files but I'm not able to import on the other mac (PPC). Importing the files as .ics on the mac(PPC) does work but I can only import one at a time. The calendar holds 898 items! So that's my last possibility. Other ideas, please. regards Ray Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73020
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 - repeat events appear shifted by one hour in one specific week Hi all, just created a repeat event for the whole year and in one of the weeks (feb 11-17) it appears shifted by one hour, i.e. every wek the conference call is at 10am but only that weeks it shows one our later (in another event happens the same thing in that particular week). on the screen it shows 11am if I open the series, the start time says 10am If I open the event, the start time says 11am even after i open and correct the event back to 10am, it appears on the screen 11am (now if I click and open it, it says 10 am - but on screen still 11am) any ideas? tks, LL Tag: saving/copying images from email Tag: 73018

Does anybody know how to save an image that is embedded in an email? On
PC,
you can right click and then "save image as". Can't do that on mac.

Thanks.

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