Does a global inbox feature exist

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I have multiple email addresses and I'm in the process of removing some I
don't use anymore however I will need to keep some for a while longer. I
wan't to know if outlook 2002 or any of the more recent offerings offer a
feature for a global inbox where I can get all of my email to come into the
same inbox including my hotmail email. I say this because I have to switch
to a different folder to get to my hotmail email and I want to be able to get
all of it in the same inbox.
 
John Toliver said:
I have multiple email addresses and I'm in the process of removing some
I
don't use anymore however I will need to keep some for a while longer.
I
wan't to know if outlook 2002 or any of the more recent offerings
offer a
feature for a global inbox where I can get all of my email to come
into the
same inbox including my hotmail email. I say this because I have to
switch
to a different folder to get to my hotmail email and I want to be able
to get
all of it in the same inbox.
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All POP3-type accounts have their inbound e-mails sent to the aggregate
Inbox folder; i.e., they all go into the same message store (.pst file).
Each HTTPmail account, like Hotmail, gets its own separate message store
and that is why you see a separate Inbox for each Hotmail account which
is separate of any Inbox for POP3 accounts. Rules don't work against
HTTPmail accounts so you cannot define one that would move your inbound
Hotmail messages into your aggregate POP3 message store to have the
messages all show up in the one Inbox.

The short of it is: each HTTPmail account gets its own message store
which is separate of every other HTTPmail message store and also
separate of the aggregate POP3 message store.

Presumably you have a *paid* Hotmail account. Otherwise, you will lose
WebDAV access to your freebie Hotmail account in a month, or less. You
also will incur the periodic outage in access to the freebie account due
to the graphical prompt that Hotmail is not inserting during login that
has you qualify that login. This is to block spammers using scripts to
abuse Hotmail in sending spam. If you have a paid Hotmail account, one
solution that comes to mind is to use Hotmail Popper (it used to be free
but, I think, the author now charges $20 for it). This runs as a local
HTTP-to-POP3 protocol converter proxy. That means you define a POP3
account in your e-mail client which uses HotPop to access your Hotmail
account. Since you are using a POP3 account in your e-mail client, its
inbound messages get aggregated into the one message store used for all
POP3 accounts. Then your Hotmail messages, retrieved using HotPop using
a POP3 account in Outlook, will end up in the Inbox along with messages
from all your other POP3 accounts. I believe HotPop can poll more than
one Hotmail account, so all your Hotmail accounts will get aggregated
into the one Inbox.
 
Thank you for the info. You saved me the time and aggravation of trying to
look through and come to that conclusion myself.I have actuall tried
hotpopper when I was trying to get tunderbird to work , which incidentally
is where the whole global inbox thing came from. I appreciate it.

johnt
 
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