Moving emails between Accounts

[leebuck]

I am new to outlook, and in the process of setting up several accounts some
erroneous accounts were setup and emails downloaded to them.

Now that I've cleaned up all the accounts, I still have some of the bad
named accounts with emails in them.

Is there a way to move the emails from the bad account names into the
correct accounts?

Basically is there a way to move emails between accounts?

Thanks for any help

Lee

 

[Milly Staples]

I don't understand your question unless you are using different profiles for
the accounts. The mail is in your mailbox and does not have anything to do
with your accounts any longer.

What is it you are really asking?

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[leebuck]

I don't understand your question unless you are using different profiles for
the accounts. The mail is in your mailbox and does not have anything to do
with your accounts any longer.

What is it you are really asking?

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

ALWAYS post your Outlook version!
Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375

I am new to outlook, and in the process of setting up several accounts
some
erroneous accounts were setup and emails downloaded to them.

Now that I've cleaned up all the accounts, I still have some of the bad
named accounts with emails in them.

Is there a way to move the emails from the bad account names into the
correct accounts?

Basically is there a way to move emails between accounts?

Thanks for any help

Lee

I've only got 1 profile, with two e-mail accounts. While setting up one one of the accounts, I was in the e-mail accounts, Settings button and didn't notice that the e-mail account name was pop.bizmail.yahoo.com (not the e-mail address). After I changed the ports to the right numbers and closed the account, it downloaded all the e-mails to the pop.bizmail.yahoo.com account.

I've changed that name to my actual e-mail account name and would like to
move these e-mails from the pop.bizmail.... to the actual e-mail acccount so
that when I sort them by account, I don't have that same strange account name
in the list, just the actual e-mail account.

Hope this clears it up.

Thanks for the help.

Lee

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

I've only got 1 profile, with two e-mail accounts. While setting up one one
of the accounts, I was in
the e-mail accounts, Settings button and didn't notice that the e-mail
account name was
pop.bizmail.yahoo.com (not the e-mail address). After I changed the ports
to the right numbers and
closed the account, it downloaded all the e-mails to the
pop.bizmail.yahoo.com account.

I've changed that name to my actual e-mail account name and would like to
move these e-mails from the pop.bizmail.... to the actual e-mail acccount so
that when I sort them by account, I don't have that same strange account
name
in the list, just the actual e-mail account.

You can name an account anything you want. Exactly how is version-specific
and you decided to keep that information secret. Messages do not move between
accounts. All POP accounts are aggregated under a single set of folders.
You'll beed to be more specific in desctibing your configuration.

 

[leebuck]

You can name an account anything you want. Exactly how is version-specific
and you decided to keep that information secret. Messages do not move between
accounts. All POP accounts are aggregated under a single set of folders.
You'll beed to be more specific in desctibing your configuration.

Brian,

Sorry, It's Outlook 2003. I was renaming the accounts in the Tools, email
accounts, e-mail settings, general tab. but when I changed the name, the
emails remained under the old account name.

When I "arrange By" e-mail accounts. I have the old name and the new name.
I would just like to get rid of the Old name.

Thanks,

Lee

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

Sorry, It's Outlook 2003. I was renaming the accounts in the Tools, email
accounts, e-mail settings, general tab. but when I changed the name, the
emails remained under the old account name.

When I "arrange By" e-mail accounts. I have the old name and the new name.
I would just like to get rid of the Old name.

I don't believe that's possible, at least not without code. The message
properties are fixed at the point when the message was entered into the PST.
New messages should have the new account name on them, but I don't see how
it's possible to alter the existing messages.

 

[Bob I]

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Brian,

Sorry, It's Outlook 2003. I was renaming the accounts in the Tools, email
accounts, e-mail settings, general tab. but when I changed the name, the
emails remained under the old account name.

When I "arrange By" e-mail accounts. I have the old name and the new name.
I would just like to get rid of the Old name.

Thanks,

Lee

Have you tried using a transfer folder? Make a temporary folder on C:
and then drag an drop the messages from the old account inbox to the
folder, and then open the new account and drag from the folder to the
inbox.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

Have you tried using a transfer folder? Make a temporary folder on C: and
then drag an drop the messages from the old account inbox to the folder, and
then open the new account and drag from the folder to the inbox.

That didn't work for me. The old account name was still retained.

 

[Bob I]

That didn't work for me. The old account name was still retained.

Yes it won't change the "To". :-(

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

Yes it won't change the "To". :-(

I thing the OP was trying to change the "E-mail Account" field of the message,
not any of the address fields.

 

[Bob I]

I thing the OP was trying to change the "E-mail Account" field of the
message, not any of the address fields.

Is that a hidden field?

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

Is that a hidden field?

It's a column you can add to the header line with Field Chooser, one of the
"All Mail Fields" choices. It contains the name of the account with which the
message was received.

 

[Bob I]

It's a column you can add to the header line with Field Chooser, one of
the "All Mail Fields" choices. It contains the name of the account with
which the message was received.

Thanks, don't know why i didn't see that when i looked before!