outlook2000 IMAP problem

[Paul Cho]

Currently, I am using outlook2000 which came with Office 2000 Professional
our office is using. I have outlook2000 setup to use IMAP to check e-mail.
However, outlook2000 has two different folder structure, and they are
"mail.mymail.com" folder tree and "Personal Folders" folder tree. I have
problem where mail is being sent from "mail.mymail.com" being saved at "Sent
Mail" folder under "Personal Folders" which does not sync with IMAP folder.
I have problem where employees are conducting daily business and sometimes
requried to look into their sent mail forlder to see what they have
sent-forms, mails, etc. How can I make the system to do either these two
functions that I want to.

1. somehow make "Personal folder" into my mail folder

2. somehow make sent mail go to "sent mail" folder under appropriate mail
tree folder.

I have very little choice other than using outlook 2000 because that's what
we have here at the office and does it's job very well except outlook2000
IMAP problem I am having...

Paul

ps: Outlook2000 is currently running latest update sp3.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Currently, I am using outlook2000 which came with Office 2000
Professional our office is using. I have outlook2000 setup to use
IMAP to check e-mail. However, outlook2000 has two different folder
structure, and they are "mail.mymail.com" folder tree and "Personal
Folders" folder tree. I have problem where mail is being sent from
"mail.mymail.com" being saved at "Sent Mail" folder under "Personal
Folders" which does not sync with IMAP folder. I have problem where
employees are conducting daily business and sometimes requried to
look into their sent mail forlder to see what they have sent-forms,
mails, etc. How can I make the system to do either these two
functions that I want to.

1. somehow make "Personal folder" into my mail folder

You can't. IMAP accounts will always have their own folder set and it can
never be designated as the default.

2. somehow make sent mail go to "sent mail" folder under appropriate
mail tree folder.

Disable the option to save all sent mail and create a rule that copies each
outgoing message to the IMAP folder of your choice.

 

[Paul Cho]

You can't. IMAP accounts will always have their own folder set and it
can never be designated as the default.



Disable the option to save all sent mail and create a rule that copies
each outgoing message to the IMAP folder of your choice.

Thanks for the reply.

Okay if IMAP accounts will always create their own folder for the
matter.... I don't understand who in the outlook2000 dev team decided to
make every mail's sent mail go to "sent mail" folder under "Personal
Folder"...

Bah....


So how do I create the rule to send out going mail from my IMAP account
to go to appriate IMAP folder's "sent mail" folder?

This is done under other mail program such as Firebird or Netscape(now
defunct "seamonkey" suite's mail program.

Okay okay...no more rant on why things are like this with outlook2000.
Does this require reinventing the wheel of writing some VB code to run
or can it be done with rule wizard? I spent 5 min with rule wizard and I
could not find appropriate function/rule generator for very thing I am
talking about. It's easy say "xyz", but it isn't that simple...please
explain things in little bit more detail.

Paul

 

[Brian Tillman]

So how do I create the rule to send out going mail from my IMAP
account to go to appriate IMAP folder's "sent mail" folder?

WIth the rules wizard, of course. Start it, then click New rule>Start from
a blank rule>Check messages after sending>Next. Select the "through the
specified account" condition and for "specified", select your IMAP account.
Click OK, then Next. Select the "move a copy to the specified folder"
action and for "specified", browse to the IMAP folder you want and click OK.
Either click Finish or click Next to specify other options.