Multiple Emails/Groups Question?

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I want to use Outlook for all my email account (work, personal, business,
other) but I don't want them all to go to my General Inbox. Is there a way
to set up
a group/folder/seperate inboxes for each of my accounts? I'd like to be able
to
see all my email messages independent of each other. Does this make sense to
you? Thanks for your help!
 
PruSucks said:
I want to use Outlook for all my email account (work, personal,
business, other) but I don't want them all to go to my General Inbox.
Is there a way to set up
a group/folder/seperate inboxes for each of my accounts? I'd like to
be able to
see all my email messages independent of each other. Does this make
sense to you? Thanks for your help!
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Use rules to move your messages to other folders. No need for me to
explain what is already available within Outlook Express' own help.

All POP3 accounts aggregate their inbound e-mails into the one Inbox
(i.e., they all share the same message store). HTTP e-mail accounts get
their own message store, so they appear with a separate set of folders
(which includes it own Inbox). So use rules to filter your inbound
messages by which account through which they were received. Create new
folders and have the rules move your messages into whichever one is
appropriate. For example, create the following folders:

Local Folder
|
|-- Inbox
| |-- Business
| |-- Work
| |-- Other
: :

And define the rules:

Apply this rule after the message arrives
Where the message is from the "Business" account
Move it to the "Business" folder
and Stop processing more rules

Apply this rule after the message arrives
Where the message is from the "Work" account
Move it to the "Work" folder
and Stop processing more rules

Apply this rule after the message arrives
Where the message is from the "Other" account
Move it to the "Other" folder
and Stop processing more rules

The stop clause should be used unless you have more rules to exercise
against the same message. Rules are executed in the order listed (i.e.,
they are OR'ed together in the order listed unless a stop clause gets
hit).
 
PruSucks said:
I want to use Outlook for all my email account (work, personal,
business, other) but I don't want them all to go to my General Inbox.
Is there a way to set up
a group/folder/seperate inboxes for each of my accounts? I'd like to
be able to
see all my email messages independent of each other. Does this make
sense to you? Thanks for your help!
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If you don't like Vanguardx's approach, then you'll need a separate mail
profile for each account. That will give you a completely separate Inbox
for each.
 
Brian Tillman said:
If you don't like Vanguardx's approach, then you'll need a separate
mail profile for each account. That will give you a completely
separate Inbox for each.
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Which then requires that you do NOT select one mail profile as the
default and then have to select which mail profile to use on each
startup of Outlook. To change mail profiles requires that you exit
Outlook and then reload it to get the prompt again as to which mail
profile to use. Rules are automatic. Changing mail profiles is not.
Also, using seperate mail profiles will still put the inbound messages
in the general Inbox folder for each mail profile which is what the OP
wants to NOT do. So the user will have to remember which mail profile
they selected to load on Outlook's startup to know which category of
messages are then shown in that mail profile's Inbox folder. Using mail
profiles doesn't sound like the easier approach and doesn't address the
OP's question of how to get them into a folder *other* than the Inbox.
 
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