Using BCC to email people in bulk? Shame on you. – Entrepreneur. Instead of trying to shoehorn Outlook or Entourage into doing something it’s not great at, read the article above. It gives some reasons why this is a dangerous practice. It also is a silly one. For less than 2,000 people MailChimp does it for free. What a deal!
It was for Hsoi. Here is what I suggested in his comments:
Have you tried rebuilding your email database? This has fixed the sluggish problems that I have had in the past with Entourage and people who have thousands of messages. Also, Entourage doesn’t seem to like thousands of messages in a folder, so if you keep the totals less than 2000 msg per folder it seems to perform much faster.
Here is the link to the Microsoft KB on how to fix rebuild the database. It’s very easy and generally safe.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2360509
TidBITS Problem Solving: Escape from Outlook 2011!. Some significant features left out that Entourage had included. Don’t upgrade until you read this article.
Exporting and importing Outlook 2011 messages E-Mail. Some ideas and instructions on how to accomplish this. Surprising that Entourage seemed to be better than this.
Using Entourage and Mail with an Exchange Server. This is for Exchange 2004 but should give you some ideas for the newer version of Exchange.
You can use the BlackBerry desktop Manager or take georgem1 suggestion “Try Missing Sync from Markspace.com
http://www.markspace.com/products/blackberry/blackberry-sync-mac-software.html
It costs 40 bucks but it works great.”
To fix first quit Entourage. Then hold down the Option key while launching Entrouage. The dtabase Utility window appears and click on rebuild database. This normally works 99% of the time.
