multiple accounts - but ONE personal folder (2003)

[Harlett O'Dowd]

Call us odd, but in my office we (currently) have multiple email
accounts. So, instead of setting up multiple accounts dumping mail
into multiple personal folders and/or psts, I'd like to have all
incoming mail be dumped into the primary folder and let folks divide
as they see fit.

Before a spyware infection forced me to reimage my home PC I had
managed to do that for my home account but I'll be hanged if I can
remember how it was done.

Many thanks in advance.

 

[Gordon]

Call us odd, but in my office we (currently) have multiple email
accounts. So, instead of setting up multiple accounts dumping mail
into multiple personal folders and/or psts, I'd like to have all
incoming mail be dumped into the primary folder and let folks divide
as they see fit.

That's how Outlook up to and including Outlook 2003 has always been. You
can't change it. In fact it's only in Outlook 2007 that you can specify
different delivery folders for different accounts. You can move messages to
different folders/pst files with rules, but all messages (in 2003) get
delivered to the default delivery location for all email accounts....

 

[Harlett O'Dowd]

That's how Outlook up to and including Outlook 2003 has always been. You
can't change it.  In fact it's only in Outlook 2007 that you can specify
different delivery folders for different accounts. You can move messages to
different folders/pst files with rules, but all messages (in 2003) get
delivered to the default delivery location for all email accounts....

Maybe I'm not explaining the situation properly - when I add a second
account it creates a separate personal folder for it (maybe not a
separate PST, but there's a separate folder for the account.) I have
people who are easily confused and if I can make all incoming email go
into the primary inbox of the primary Personal Folder it will make
everyone's life a whole lot easier.

 

[Gordon]

That's how Outlook up to and including Outlook 2003 has always been. You
can't change it. In fact it's only in Outlook 2007 that you can specify
different delivery folders for different accounts. You can move messages
to
different folders/pst files with rules, but all messages (in 2003) get
delivered to the default delivery location for all email accounts....

Maybe I'm not explaining the situation properly - when I add a second
account it creates a separate personal folder for it (maybe not a
separate PST, but there's a separate folder for the account.) I have
people who are easily confused and if I can make all incoming email go
into the primary inbox of the primary Personal Folder it will make
everyone's life a whole lot easier.

Then you are not using POP accounts. What sort of email accounts are you
using? IMAP? Exchange?

 

[Harlett O'Dowd]

Then you are not using POP accounts. What sort of email accounts are you
using? IMAP? Exchange?

Just to make this as big of a cluster as possible - most of us *have*
been using POP for years, but with webmail available would like to
move to IMAP.

AND the incoming account is MAPI (exchange?)

 

[Gordon]

Then you are not using POP accounts. What sort of email accounts are you
using? IMAP? Exchange?

Just to make this as big of a cluster as possible - most of us *have*
been using POP for years, but with webmail available would like to
move to IMAP.

Just to clarify. Outlook never has automatically set up multiple Personal
Folders for multiple POP email accounts.

AND the incoming account is MAPI (exchange?)

Do you mean MAPI or IMAP?
All POP accounts WILL be delivered to the default Inbox. The only way you
AUTOMATICALLY get separate sets of folders is by setting up either an IMAP
mail account, and Exchange mail account, or by using the Outlook connector
to access Hotmail and/or MSN email accounts.

 

[Harlett O'Dowd]

Just to clarify. Outlook never has automatically set up multiple Personal
Folders for multiple POP email accounts.


Do you mean MAPI or IMAP?
All POP accounts WILL be delivered to the default Inbox. The only way you
AUTOMATICALLY get separate sets of folders is by setting up either an IMAP
mail account, and Exchange mail account, or by using the Outlook connector
to access Hotmail and/or MSN email accounts.

To clarify - the new account is MAPI - not IMAP. I would prefer for
the old account to move from POP to IMAP.

Is there a way to set up IMAP and MAPI so it will *not* automatically
create a separate set of folders?

 

[Gordon]

Just to clarify. Outlook never has automatically set up multiple Personal
Folders for multiple POP email accounts.


Do you mean MAPI or IMAP?
All POP accounts WILL be delivered to the default Inbox. The only way you
AUTOMATICALLY get separate sets of folders is by setting up either an IMAP
mail account, and Exchange mail account, or by using the Outlook connector
to access Hotmail and/or MSN email accounts.

To clarify - the new account is MAPI - not IMAP. I would prefer for
the old account to move from POP to IMAP.

I think you are a little bit confused. MAPI is not a TYPE of email account -
MAPI is a protocol used in the transmission of email.

Is there a way to set up IMAP and MAPI so it will *not* automatically
create a separate set of folders?

See above re MAPI.
In the case of IMAP, the answer is no, because the whole point of an IMAP
account is that it is a mirror of what is on the Mail server and so will
always have it's own set of folders.