Outlook 2007 Standard Mail Folders

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I am using Outlook 2007 to email using an IMAP account. Everything
works fine at this point, but I seem to be unable to define standard
folders:

For example, I can assign what folder is used to store sent mail,
however, I am unable to do the same with a junk mail folder (I have on
on the IMAP server for that called "SPAM" rather than "Junk Email" and
I am unable to rename it), deleted items folder, or saved drafts
folder. It always wants to default to the Personal Folder that some
standard with Outlook.

Along the same lines, I am unable to designated my IMAP account as the
default mailbox. Hence, Outlook gives me no alert when new mail
arrives, as this is apparently only possible for the defailt account.

In any case, I am having a hard time customizing these things to truly
set Outlook 2007 up in the manner that, for example, my Corporate
Exchange account works. I am not sure why Outlook restricts this
behavior so much OR why these options seem to be deeply hidden within
the menus.

Using the help to solve these problems proved to be useless to this
point. I might give Thunderbird 2 a try tonight to see if it works any
better.

Thanks for all and any help,

Christian
 
I am using Outlook 2007 to email using an IMAP account. Everything
works fine at this point, but I seem to be unable to define standard
folders:

For example, I can assign what folder is used to store sent mail,
however, I am unable to do the same with a junk mail folder (I have on
on the IMAP server for that called "SPAM" rather than "Junk Email" and
I am unable to rename it), deleted items folder, or saved drafts
folder. It always wants to default to the Personal Folder that some
standard with Outlook.

Along the same lines, I am unable to designated my IMAP account as the
default mailbox. Hence, Outlook gives me no alert when new mail
arrives, as this is apparently only possible for the defailt account.

In any case, I am having a hard time customizing these things to truly
set Outlook 2007 up in the manner that, for example, my Corporate
Exchange account works. I am not sure why Outlook restricts this
behavior so much OR why these options seem to be deeply hidden within
the menus.

Using the help to solve these problems proved to be useless to this
point. I might give Thunderbird 2 a try tonight to see if it works any
better.

Thanks for all and any help,

Christian
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I installed Thunderbird 2.0 tonight and after about 1 hour of tweaking
and customizing the program runs exactly as I want. No complaints and
no issues. When I ran into one issue with Thunderbird getting confused
where GMAIL's Trash folder is, a simple Notepad file edit fixed
everything (this was found through the online help).

I like using Outlook 2003 at work, but Outlook 2007 once and for all
convinced me that Outlook is made for exchange server accounts --
everything else does not work very well within the Outlook framework
and offers little to no customize-ability.

Christian
 
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