Entourage + IMAP

I thought I’d take advantage of a lull during the holiday break to reconfigure the way my mail works. Tod’s been wanting to do this for months and since I’ll be travelling for almost a month starting in the next few weeks, it makes sense to use IMAP–where all the mail is stored on the server, giving me access to the exact same set up from my desktop or laptop or any other computer I care to use.
Except that I use Entourage as my mail client. It’s a Microsoft product that I’ve really been satisfied with–up until now. Entourage and IMPA do not play nicely. It took hours to figure out simple things like moving my folders over to the server. I currently have 1327 messages in my “work” folder. I should have about 800. And to add insult to injury, it’s really, really lsow. The I in IMAP stands for Instant but not if you’re using Entourage.
Argh!!!