Outlook 2003 Storing Sent Items with IMAP

[Dougie Mac]

Hi,

I've recently started using Outlook 2003, (upgrading from Outllook Express).
I have several IMAP accounts and with Outllook Express whenever I sent an
email from one account, it automatically stored it in the IMAP folder Sent
Items of the account I sent it from.

How can you do this in Outllook 2003?? It seems to store everything in Sent
Items which means I can't read the mail I've sent from other locations.

Regards.

 

[JimGC]

Hi,

I've recently started using Outlook 2003, (upgrading from Outllook Express).
I have several IMAP accounts and with Outllook Express whenever I sent an
email from one account, it automatically stored it in the IMAP folder Sent
Items of the account I sent it from.

How can you do this in Outllook 2003?? It seems to store everything in Sent
Items which means I can't read the mail I've sent from other locations.

Regards.

I have this problem too and would appreciate it if you let
me know of any solution - I'll do the same.

(Personal view: Outlook really is a pig's ear compared to
other IMAP clients I've used. Sadly my IT services
department have enforced it and created endless hours of
productivity delays as we try to turn out rational thoughts
into Microsofthought. *sigh*)

 

[JimGC]

I just gave up. Outlook is dreadful. Absolute bloated
rubbish. Instead, I seamlessly and painlessly moved from
Netscape Messenger 7.1 to Mozilla Thunderbird, and it's
*beautiful*. Works perfectly and pulled din everything from
Netscape with no pain at all. For anyone looking for IMAP
email without the whole Netscape bundle, this is perfect.
Just my opinion of course ...

 

[Dougie Mac]

Hopefully one of the MVPs will be able to help. I must agree that Outlook
2003 has to be one of the most poorly designed products there is from
Microsoft. Another thing I don't like about it is that you have to open up
a separate newsreader to read the newsgroups unlike outlook express where
you can just view them in the folders view.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I've recently started using Outlook 2003, (upgrading from Outllook
Express). I have several IMAP accounts and with Outllook Express
whenever I sent an email from one account, it automatically stored it
in the IMAP folder Sent Items of the account I sent it from.

How can you do this in Outllook 2003?? It seems to store everything
in Sent Items which means I can't read the mail I've sent from other
locations.

Create a rule that copies sent items to the IMAP Sent Items folder and
disable the option in Outlook of keeping a coy of sent items in its Sent
Items folder.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Hopefully one of the MVPs will be able to help. I must agree that
Outlook 2003 has to be one of the most poorly designed products there
is from Microsoft.

It isn't the best IMAP client, definitely. As to the rest, I think OL2003 is
just fantastic.

Another thing I don't like about it is that you
have to open up a separate newsreader to read the newsgroups unlike
outlook express where you can just view them in the folders view.

But Outlook Express is not Outlook - it's an Internet mail and newsreader
client *only*. It doesn't allow corporate/Exchange mail access, no calendar,
tasks, etc, has very limited rules handling - each program is designed to do
something different, and each has its purpose. It really depends on what you
need.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]

But Outlook Express is not Outlook - it's an Internet mail and
newsreader client *only*. It doesn't allow corporate/Exchange mail
access,

Well, it can access Exchange via IMAP or POP, if Exchange is so enabled. We
access our Exchange servers with Thunderbird on Unix machines for some of
our employees.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]

But Outlook Express is not Outlook - it's an Internet mail and
newsreader client *only*. It doesn't allow corporate/Exchange mail
access,

Well, it can access Exchange via IMAP or POP, if Exchange is so
enabled. We access our Exchange servers with Thunderbird on Unix
machines for some of our employees.

Right. It just can't act as a full Exchange client. You can access a POP or
IMAP enabled Exchange mailbox from pretty much anything under the sun.