2 Accounts on Outlook?

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Mark Lewis

Hi,

On my PC I'm running Outlook 2007 connected to an exchange server for work and Outlook Express (about 5 accounts) pop3 for my personal email.

Is there any way I can use Outlook 2007 for all these accounts but not have the emails merging into 1 inbox etc?

Thanks

Mark
 
On my PC I'm running Outlook 2007 connected to an exchange server for work
and
Outlook Express (about 5 accounts) pop3 for my personal email.

Is there any way I can use Outlook 2007 for all these accounts but not
have the emails
merging into 1 inbox etc?
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Certainly. Outlook 2007 allows you to choose separate Inbox folders for
each account. Click Tools>Account Settings. Select your account, click
Change, then More Settings. The Folder tab should have the choice for
Inbox. You can make it another folder in the same PST or make it an Inbox
folder in another PST.
 
Thanks Brian, works a treat!

How do I import the OE messages into the Personal Folders (new one I set
up)? they keep on going to the Exchange mail box!

Regards

Mark
 
Thanks Brian, works a treat!
Great.

How do I import the OE messages into the Personal Folders (new one I set
up)? they keep on going to the Exchange mail box!
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Importing from OE always places the messages in your delivery location
folders, which in your case is the Exchange mailbox. I can think of several
ways to deal with this, but the one I'd choose would be to create a new mail
profile with no mail account defined, only a new, clean PST. Include in
this profile as well the PST you want accepting your POP messages. Import
the OE messages and then move them to the other PST. Once they're there,
you can close Outlook and delete the mail profile and the extra PST you
created, going back to your profile containing Exchange and the POP account.

You also could make that new profile use the POP PST as delivery location
for the importing of OE messages, which will import them directly into that
PST, but only if you don't mind having all the default folders in it, since
Outlook will create all the folders when it starts.

So to summarize, create a new mail profile. Use either your POP PST as the
delivery location or create a new PST as the delivery location and add your
POP PST as a secondary PST. Import the OE messages. In the first case,
your messages will have been imported directly into the PST where you want
them but you'll have all the default folders in it as well. In the second
case, you'll have to move the imported messages as a second step, but your
POP PST will not acquire extra folders you may never use if they're not in
it already.
 
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