Set different datafiles?

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I'm using Office 2003 and I want to set one datafile for each account. In other words, all messages sent to account1 should automatically move to inbox of Personal folder1, messages to account2 to inbox of Personal folder2, etc. But every time I select an account and choose a datafile, the datafile is automatically set as standard for all my other accounts too. What am I doing wrong?
 
William said in news:[email protected]:
I'm using Office 2003 and I want to set one datafile for each
account. In other words, all messages sent to account1 should
automatically move to inbox of Personal folder1, messages to account2
to inbox of Personal folder2, etc. But every time I select an account
and choose a datafile, the datafile is automatically set as standard
for all my other accounts too. What am I doing wrong?
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You only to get to select one active information store to which all your
incoming e-mails get delivered. You don't get to select a different
information store for each account. Use rules to move the messages in your
Inbox based on their account to a different information store. You will
need to have the other information stores open (File -> Open) so Outlook has
them open in order to write into them.

Since rules only work for POP3 accounts (don't know about IMAP because the
messages are back on the server and not local), this won't work if you have
HTTPmail accounts, like for MSN or Hotmail. (This was true for OL2002 and
earlier. Don't know if OL2003 supports its rules getting exercised against
HTTPmail accounts).
 
William said in news:[email protected]:
Never mind, I found a way =)

Thanks for your help
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It would have been the clause "sent through account" (or similarly named
since I'm writing this from memory rather than digging through Outlook right
now). It sounded like you wanted each account to have its separate
processing to put it into a different information store. Hopefully you have
it working the way you want.

Since about the only thing I use Outlook for is e-mail (at home but I use
everything else at work), I'd probably just use Outlook Express - except the
rules in Outlook are far superior. Eventually it would be handy if they
actually added regular expressions but I suspect Microsoft feels that at
that point their users would end up using VBA to write up macros and use the
custom action clause in rules.
 
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