Outlook 2003 IMAP settings

[John Orrett]

Hi all, hope you can help me with a problem. My wife has a PC with 5
email accounts on it, with various aliases (account 12345_1, 12345_2
etc.). She was using a POP3 mailbox, and all 5 accounts came into the
personal folder with no problem.
She now requires a laptop for work, and I have set up the same accounts
on both the PC and laptop using IMAP, so she can get her emails whilst
out and about. With IMAP however, each email alias is showing as a
subfolder. While she can live with this, each alias gets all of the mail
of any account with the same number - so account 1, 2 and 3 say are are
alias 12345_2, but when a mail comes into mailbox 1 for that email
address,it also goes into mailbox 2 and 3 also, which has a different
address, and she has to read it in one account, and then it is shown as
read in the other two.

Hope that makes sense, but is there a way to mirror POP3, and have all
the mails coming into the personal folder inbox, and ditch the subfolders?

Many thanks,
John

 

[Brian Tillman]

Hi all, hope you can help me with a problem. My wife has a PC with 5
email accounts on it, with various aliases (account 12345_1, 12345_2
etc.). She was using a POP3 mailbox, and all 5 accounts came into the
personal folder with no problem.
She now requires a laptop for work, and I have set up the same
accounts on both the PC and laptop using IMAP, so she can get her
emails whilst out and about. With IMAP however, each email alias is
showing as a subfolder. While she can live with this, each alias gets
all of the mail of any account with the same number - so account 1, 2
and 3 say are are alias 12345_2, but when a mail comes into mailbox
1 for that email address,it also goes into mailbox 2 and 3 also,
which has a different address, and she has to read it in one account,
and then it is shown as read in the other two.

Hope that makes sense, but is there a way to mirror POP3, and have all
the mails coming into the personal folder inbox, and ditch the
subfolders?

Why not set them up on the second PC as POP as well? Just enable the
feature to keep copies on the server and delete them after some period of
time in which she's sure she'll have used not PCs.

 

[John Orrett]

Why not set them up on the second PC as POP as well? Just enable the
feature to keep copies on the server and delete them after some period
of time in which she's sure she'll have used not PCs.

Thanks Brian, I didn't know it could be done as simply as that! Is that
ISP specific, or is it just a generic thing?

Regards
John

 

[Brian Tillman]

Thanks Brian, I didn't know it could be done as simply as that! Is that
ISP specific, or is it just a generic thing?

It's pretty much standard for any ISP (except for gmail).