Downloading pop-3 and exchange mail?

[Mike]

I want to use Outlook 2003 to download email for my work from an exchange
server and also to download my personal pop-3 email accounts. I already have
my old .pst file loaded into Outlook right now.

1. Any issues at all with doing this?

2. Do I set up 2 different profiles?

3. What else should I know?

Thanks!!

 

[Robert Findlay [MSFT]]

You can use one profile to do this as long as you dont mind e-mails from
your POP3 and Exchange accounts going into the same Inbox. If you want them
both to have their own Inbox then you will need to set each one up in its
own Profile.

I hope this information is helpful.

Robert Findlay
Partner Technical Lead -- BizApps
Microsoft Technical Support for Platforms and Business Applications

 

[Mike]

1.) If I have it all go into the same inbox, then I could use rules to send
messages from different accounts to different folders right?

2.) What happens when I back up my .pst? Since I am downloading email from
the exchange server, this will not become part of my .pst?

3.) What happens when I'm at home and download my pop-3 email. I will not be
able to download my exchange mail, so what will it do?

Thanks!!!!

 

[Jeff Stephenson [MSFT]]

I want to use Outlook 2003 to download email for my work from an exchange
server and also to download my personal pop-3 email accounts. I already have
my old .pst file loaded into Outlook right now.

1. Any issues at all with doing this?

2. Do I set up 2 different profiles?

3. What else should I know?

Thanks!!

I have two profiles for this: one for work that includes the Exchange
server and the POP3 server (with leave-on-server, delete from server when I
delete from deleted items set). The POP3 account delivers to the Exchange
mailbox.

The home profile is just a single POP3 account without leave-on-server set.

This way, I can monitor my ISP mail at work and delete spam from the ISP's
server by Shift-Deleting it (the equivalent of deleting from deleted
items). When I get home, I just download what remains into my PST.