Can not view Email On Outlook 2007

[D Lirious]

I have set up Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo account on Outlook 2007.
The test functions says they are set up correctly.
However I can only see the Hotmail account under the Mail Folders section.
Under the general "Inbox" icon at the top Gmail is being received.
That is not of any use. Logically I want to see what mail is coming in to
what account.
Is ths Microsoft's way of forcing Outlook users, who may or may not be
willing users of Outlook, to use Hotmail only?

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Sorry, but its not microsoft, its user error. What account type did you
configure for gmail? what is your default delivery location? What do you
see if you press Ctrl+6?

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[D Lirious]

Thankyou for your reply.
But your are in error.
I followed the instructions to the letter setting up Hotmail, Gmail and
Yahoo mail.
Non -Outlook web mail sources are intermingled under inbox, not in their own
separate folders, by design.
The only conceivable reason for this is Microsoft's ongoing anticompetitive
mentality. If Outlook can automatically configure a folder for Hotmail it
should do so by default for other email services as well.
In Outlook 2007 it appears one must wade through arcane instructions to
create folders for directing mail from web-based, non-Hotmail accounts.
There is no rational excuse for this design structure.
I really don't care because I can not use Outlook for my business calenar
anyway, nor would I want to, and I have the luxury of deleting Outlook.

 

[William]

"D Lirious"

Good name.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

The only conceivable reason for this is Microsoft's ongoing
anticompetitive mentality. If Outlook can automatically configure a folder
for Hotmail it should do so by default for other email services as well.

Sorry, but you're wrong about he "anticompetitive mentality". All POP
accounts use the same folders since POP is a one-way protocol. Messages can
flow only from server to client. Hotmail and IMAP accounts, however, always
get their own folder sets since those accounts are two-way. The folder set
you see for those types of accounts are dictated bu the server. Had you
configured your Gmail account as IMAP instead of POP you'd have seen a
separate set of folders for that account as well.

In Outlook 2007 it appears one must wade through arcane instructions to
create folders for directing mail from web-based, non-Hotmail accounts.

I don't find it arcane whatsoever and I've had no more formal training in
Outlook that the next guy. I just read and experiment a lot to find out how
the programs I use work.

There is no rational excuse for this design structure.

Sure there is and I just explained it to you. I suspect other IMAP clients
would work in a similar fashion. They'd have to due to the fact that the
server dictates the folder structure, not the client.

I really don't care because I can not use Outlook for my business calenar
anyway, nor would I want to, and I have the luxury of deleting Outlook.

So what's stopping you? If you can't bring yourself to understand how a
program works and why it performs the way it does, don't use it.