[X4U] spotlight and entourage

[John Baltutis]

On 05/10/05, Eddie Hargreaves <meged at earthlink.net> wrote:
> On 5/5/05 6:54 PM, Lorin Roche <lorinroche at mac.com> wrote:
>> On May 5, 2005, at 4:34 PM, x4u-request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com
>>wrote:
>>>
>>> Spotlight will search messages from mail.app but how do I get it to search
>>> messages from Entourage?
>>
>> You just drag your Entourage folders to the desktop, where they become mbox
>> folders, which are Spotlight searchable, is what I read.
>
> Where did you read that? I haven't found that to be true at all. In fact,
> Apple changed Mail's mailboxes from the mbox format in order to make the
> messages searchable by Spotlight.

Really? That's not how I read
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mail/2.0/en/ml1012.html>.
Mail 2.0 now includes, in addition to the mbox for Mail, a subdirectory
containing individual copies of messages in the mbox, which I surmise is
what Spotlight uses for its searches.