Outlook 2003 - Setup for multiple Accounts & .pst files

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I am trying to set up a system where the user wants multiple email accounts
to feed into multiple .pst files (e.g., Account A -> A.pst, Account B ->
B.pst, etc...). I have set up multiple accounts to feed into a single .pst
file before, but do not know, after having done some research on-line, how to
set this up for a single user-id, as it appears that the account setup screen
only allows one .pst file to be configured at a time. I have read information
on this RSS and others that made it sound as though it is possible. Can
anyone help?

Thank you!
 
You can create a different PST file then use the Rules Wizard to move
messages from a certain account to that PST file
 
Vince,

Would I be correct in assuming that both accounts should be set up to flow
into the same .pst file, initially?

Is there no way to keep this a bit safer than via a Rule? I am more
confident that the user would not mess with the account setup than a rule.

Thank you!
 
Not really, Outlook is designed to centralize communications without regard
to account so you see everything (except IMAP & HTTP mail accounts) in one
place. It removes the thought of 'where did this come from'. It's just mail,
Outlook will handle where replies & forwards come from...
 
Vince,

Upon further reading, I decided to set up the accounts under separate
Outlook Profiles. I do not trust the user(s) to keep their hands out of the
Account settings and Rules setup, where they could potentially end up having
emails from the different accounts mixed.

I did not specify in my original post - bad me - but one of these accounts
gets > 500 emails per day as an "info@<company>.com" account, and the other
is the personal account of the user, which is not given out to the public.

Thanks for you help, though, it is a direction that I could consider in the
future.
 
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