How to Import Entourage Mailbox in Outlook 2011 Mac

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Microsoft Entourage, is a popular email client manager for Mac users. Since many years this program served the consumers across the world .Microsoft entourage is being ruling as the most popular email client manager and replaced outlook for Mac.’

As soon as Outlook for Mac 2011enmetyerd into the world of email client manager it has been drawing more and more client’s towards itself. Few customers even imported their mailboxes from current client to newer platform. Most of the users are unaware with the fact that there is an unaware with the reliable way to migrate the mailbox from MS Entourage to MS Outlook.

In this post, you will learn how to securely migrate from Entourage to MS Outlook for Mac 2011.

Microsoft Entourage keep mailbox content in.RGE file. In a simple word, Microsoft Entourage mailbox database file is in .RGE file format that need Entourage client for read and write access. The .RGE database file keep data such as emails, calendar, contacts, tasks, notes, and many more that is unique for every mailbox associated with the client.

In Entourage provide Import and Export options, which is used to import and export tasks like mailbox. The biggest benefits of this option are that it make it easy for the data to transfer to the desired destination.

Transferring data from Entourage to Outlook

Apart from the security and reliability issue while transferring the data there is another issue which the security and reliability issue of the newer platform. When it comes to choose Microsoft’s services and products, you can easily upgrade them. Now go through the secure and reliable way to migrate from Entourage mailbox to Outlook 2011 for Macintosh.

Find Entourage database (*.RGE) file and copy it, and the paste it on the same computer but in different location. In case if your Mac denies to copy the database, you have to export mailbox to new .RGE file, then you can proceed with migration process.

Learn how to export Entourage data into a .RGE file:

  1. Launch your Entourage program and hit on Filemenu, and select Export in context menu
  2. Choose itemswhich you want to export and then hit on Next button
  3. Choose  No option to leave the items in Entourage mailboxafter export
  4. Select your desired locationon Mac and check file extension to keep
  5. Hit on Done button to complete exporting Entourage database.

Now you have the copy of your Entourage mailbox that you need to import into Outlook 2011 for Mac. Simply follow the given steps for this:

  1. Move to Application > Microsoft Office 2011 > Microsoft Outlook
  2. Hit on File menu and then select Import
  3. In Import wizard, choose ‘Entourage information from an archive or earlier version‘, and hit on Next button to proceed
  4. Now, choose ‘Entourage 2008 (Including Web Services Edition)’ and hit on Next button
  5. By default all the mailbox items are shown selected; hit on Next button to proceed
  6. Now, choose identitycreated and hit on Next button
  7. On the given message dialogue hit OK
  8. It will start importing your mailbox data from Exchange Server and you will find the screen saying ‘Microsoft Outlook wants to use your confidential informationstored in “Exchange” in your key chain’. Hit on Always Allow button
  9. With this step you are finished importing.RGE file into Outlook 2011. You will find a screen hit on Finish button to close it

Now you can read/write access your Entourage mailbox in Outlook for Mac 2011 and you don’t even need to modify the file format of any mailbox contents.

Set up Email Account in Outlook for Mac 2011

As Outlook support synchronizing multiple email accounts at the same time,  you can even set up your personal and professional emails at once in Outlook for Mac 2011. Learn how you can do this:

  1. In Outlook for Mac 2011, hit on Tools menu and select Accounts
  2. On Accounts wizard, hit on plus(+) button present in the bottom left corner and select Email in list
  3. In next step ‘Enter your account information’, and type your Email and Password
  4. Now you will find that the windows is expanded and you need to enter more details:
    1. Type your email address, which you want to configure in the Email address field.
    2. Type password in the Password field.
    3. In User name field, type- your email ID
    4. In Type menu, select IMAP
    5. In ‘Incoming Server field’, type-in ‘one.com
    6. Check ‘use SSL to connect (recommended)’ checkbox
    7. In ‘Incoming server port’ field, type-in 993
    8. In ‘Outgoing server field’, type-in send.one.com and port no. 465
    9. Check both ‘Override default port’ and ‘Use SSL to connect (recommended)’ and hit on Add Account button
  5. In next step, provide the following information connected with your email account set up:
    1. Type-in your email, in Account description field.
    2. Give restof the info details as you provided in step 4
    3. Hit on More Options button and choose authentication mode
    4. Give  Username and Password
    5. In Unqualified domain field, type domain name used in your email ID

(Email ID: username@exampledomain.com, then domain name: exampledomain.com)

  1. Hit on OK

With this step you have successfully end up configuring your email account on Outlook of Mac 2011.

When your entourage database gets corrupted then it becomes very important to fix the corruption so that the entourage database can be accessed. When any repairing method does not work then you should try some alternative method to repair the corruption issue. Here using any professional and trusted tool will be the best option to fix the damaged database file. Such type of tools has the ability to deal with all sorts of corruption issue. Whenever you are unable to fix the data loss situation then you should use Entourage File Repair Tool. This is one of the best repair tools which have the ability to fix corrupt and damage Entourage database (RGE) file. Really great software that performs Entourage recovery from Mac only in few minutes as this is built with an advanced features and takes deep scanning process of the entire hard drive or disk.

It can recover corrupt data which includes contacts, attachments, e-mail messages, notes, calendar, tasks etc in their original form and that too without any further damage. This tool repairs the entourage database in three easy steps: Scan, Detect and Repair. It provides rich graphical user interface that makes the entire repair process easy. It can easily archives the entourage email database to backup the data and to transfers the entourage account completely. The entourage repair tool helps you to repair and restore the damaged database in simple, fast and in a secure way.

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STEPS TO RESTORE Corrupted  ENTOURAGE Database

Step 1: Start the Entourage repair Tool software. After that ‘Select Entourage Database File’ dialog box that gets displayed first by default. Now in the text box you will find a default location of database file, is by default selected. Press on ‘Browse‘ option to select database file from any other location.

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Step 2: After this the file will scan itself. After the completion of scanning process, a summary message box will get displayed. Hit on the ‘Close’ button to close this summary message box.

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Step 3: After this have a preview of the repaired Entourage database file before saving, open it in Stellar Phoenix Entourage Repair. You will find the default repaired mail which is displayed on the preview window. To have a preview of any mail, hit on ‘Mail’ button of the Tool bar or go to ‘View’ menu and click Mail option. You can even select your desired Entourage mailbox folder to see its contents.

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Step 4: Now to save the repaired entourage file at your desired location, click on the File option on the application’s menu bar. Then select the ‘Save Repaired File’ option and after this you will find the ‘Destination Folder’ dialog box. Select your desired destination for saving the repaired file.

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Step 5: At last you will find a saving process dialog box. You can even click on ‘Stop’ button to stop the file saving process.

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