Outlook 2003 Sent Items won't use non-exchange mailbox sent items

[Frobnitz]

Folks, can someone help me with this question? I think there is a
workaround for this, but I can't seem to find it.

The issue is that my company uses exchange for calendaring and
contacts, but an IMAP server for email. Exchange also supports email,
but the mailbox quotas are pretty small. This is because email is
outsourced to a telcomm carrier.

Anyways, I have an IMAP Sent Items folder, and want copies of my
outbound email to be copied there. But Outlook 2003 seems to only use
the Sent Items folder on the exchange server, and since I use a lot of
attachments, the mailbox gets filled up pretty fast, and I have to
manually move it to the IMAP Sent Items folder.

I went into outlook's advanaced options settings, but can't find a
place to set which mailbox account's Sent Items's folder I am supposed
to use. I can do this to select which Inbox folder comes up on start
up, so it goes right to the IMAP server like it's supposed to, but
Sent Items and Drafts doesn't seem to have the option.

This used to work under Outlook Express, but IT is trying to move
everyone to Outlook 2003, so they can stop supporting OE, and not have
people run Outlook for scheduling and contacts and OE for Mail. But
some of us are having problems with this conversion.

Does anyone here know how to make this work? If the "Sent Items"
folder is removed from the exchange server, will it then look at
another mailbox for Sent Items? The IT people seem to be willing to
make changes, but I think they are more Unix types...

Thanks,
Frob

 

[Frobnitz]

PS I also tried coming up with a rule that when a message appears in
the exchange sent items folder to move it to the IMAP sent items
folder, but I can't seem to make this work either. Can this be done
using Outlook rules?

Thanks,
Frob