how to group multiple imap accounts just like POP3?

[kyle]

OK. I just moved from POP3 to IMAP.

I have 13 email accounts to maintain.

My one complaint is this:

With POP3, I have all 13 email accounts funneling into my Personal
Folders > Inbox / Sent folders

With IMAP, Each of the 13 email accounts is its "own" Personal Folders
type setting. How can I change this to how I had it in POP3? Is the
only way to write 13 * 2 (inbox & sent) = 26 rules to move emails from
the various IMAP email accounts into my personal folders inbox/sent?

ALso, I will have to do this on about 50 other machines for other email
addresses..if it was just mine, I might just bite the bullet...


Kyle

 

[kyle]

also,

another impending doom question: I was able to import/export ALL 13
email accounts with one export. now it seems I will have to do all 13
separately. Is there a way to export all 13 IMAP accounts at the same
time? I can't hold the ctrl key down to select multiple folders at
that IMAP account level....

 

[Brian Tillman]

With POP3, I have all 13 email accounts funneling into my Personal
Folders > Inbox / Sent folders

With IMAP, Each of the 13 email accounts is its "own" Personal Folders
type setting. How can I change this to how I had it in POP3?

You can't. With POP, Outlook downloads the messages from the server and
stores them locally, so coalescing the traffic from multipl accounts is
practical. With IMAP, the data stays on the server and every server
contains different data. The PSTs that are local are merely caches,
reflections of the server contents, enabling quicker access to the data
after the initial folder population.

Is the
only way to write 13 * 2 (inbox & sent) = 26 rules to move emails from
the various IMAP email accounts into my personal folders inbox/sent?

You won't have to write outgoing rules. All sent items will be stored in
your local PST's Sent Items folder. So you'll need 13 rules.

ALso, I will have to do this on about 50 other machines for other
email addresses..if it was just mine, I might just bite the bullet...

Perhaps IMAP is not the most optimum account type, then.