ENT2001: Entourage Issues Fixed in Service Release 1 (295094)



The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Entourage 2001 for Mac

This article was previously published under Q295094

SUMMARY

This article describes issues that are addressed and improvements to Entourage 2001 after you apply the Microsoft Office 2001 for Mac Service Release 1 (SR 1).

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General Improvements

  • If you are working on more than one e-mail message and your Macintosh is reset, Entourage 2001 SR 1 recovers all of the e-mail messages that you were working on.
  • Entourage 2001 SR 1 saves notes and searches through HTML e-mail messages faster.
  • Entourage 2001 SR 1 fixes a problem that sometimes causes Entourage to stop responding when users switch identities.
  • You can view different months in the Calendar in Entourage 2001 SR 1 when a day other than Sunday is selected as the first day of the week. For additional information, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

    276983 ENT2001: Mini-Calendar Focuses Incorrectly When You Change the First Day

  • Entourage 2001 SR 1 no longer stops responding when the Address Book or a recent address list is used to enter extremely long names or e-mail addresses into a message.
  • You can start Microsoft Internet Explorer at the same time that Entourage 2001 SR 1 is running without causing the computer to stop responding.
  • Entourage 2001 SR 1 can perform advanced rebuilds of Entourage databases and recover databases even if they are badly damaged.
  • In Entourage 2001, custom categories imported from Palm Desktop are duplicated in some cases in the Entourage Category list each time the user synchronizes with Entourage. This issue is resolved in Entourage 2001 SR 1.
  • Entourage 2001 SR 1 fixes a problem that sometimes causes Entourage to stop responding or return incorrect results when it is running a rule, Advanced Find, a custom view, or finding related items with more than 10 criteria.

Contact Improvements

  • Entourage 2001 SR 1 opens contacts and performs quick searches faster, especially for users with large Contact lists.

E-mail Improvements

  • Entourage 2001 SR 1 properly retrieves messages from Eudora Internet Mail Server (EIMS), Netscape Messaging Server, and Lotus Domino IMAP Server.
  • Entourage 2001 SR 1 correctly deletes mail folders stored on Sun and Mac.com IMAP mail servers.
  • You can use Entourage 2001 SR 1 to connect to a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server that requires authentication even if you use your full e-mail address as the account ID or include a domain name before the account ID.
  • Importing and exporting messages to and from other e-mail programs, especially to and from Mailsmith and Eudora, is improved in Entourage 2001 SR 1.
  • In Entourage 2001 SR 1, you can mark messages that you import from Eudora or Netscape Sent Items folder as read. For additional information, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

    275480 ENT2001: Cannot Send Messages with Hotmail Account

  • Lines wrap properly in vCards in Entourage 2001 SR 1.
  • Microsoft Hotmail users can use Entourage 2001 SR 1 to send messages by using the Hotmail service.

International Language Support Improvements

  • In some rare cases, Entourage users who are running a Japanese version of the Mac OS or a Japanese language kit experience system lockups when they run the spelling checker on sentences that contain characters in a specific sequence. This issue is resolved in Entourage 2001 SR 1.

Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:9/25/2006
Keywords:kbinfo KB295094