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djc122984 - 18 Nov 2006 20:03 GMT

I have three email accounts that I import into outlook. How do I setup a
different inbox for each account. I want to make it so when I press
send/receive each email account will go to their respective inboxs instead of
them all just going to one inbox.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] - 18 Nov 2006 20:47 GMT

You can't - Outlook uses one in-box for all mail coming into that mail profile. If you want separate inboxes, you would need separate profiles. Only one profile can be open at a time however.

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After furious head scratching, djc122984 asked:

| I have three email accounts that I import into outlook. How do I
| setup a different inbox for each account. I want to make it so when
| I press send/receive each email account will go to their respective
| inboxs instead of them all just going to one inbox.

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Zilla - 18 Nov 2006 21:10 GMT

Profiles do NOT have the same functionality as Identities
did in OE correct? For example, one can not "switch"
Profiles while running Outlook. I wonder why Outlook did
NOT use all of OE's features. The Identities feature is the
one feature stopping me from switching to Outlook from OE.

You can't - Outlook uses one in-box for all mail coming into that mail
profile. If you want separate inboxes, you would need separate profiles.
Only one profile can be open at a time however.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] - 19 Nov 2006 00:32 GMT

OE is a simple mail and news reader. Outlook has far more functionality than just as a mail client. What was programmed for OE just won't cut it for Outlook. If switching identities is the killer app for you, then by all means stick to OE.

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| Profiles do NOT have the same functionality as Identities
| did in OE correct? For example, one can not "switch"
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|| I press send/receive each email account will go to their respective
|| inboxs instead of them all just going to one inbox.

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Vijay - 19 Nov 2006 00:57 GMT

try this
1. Create inbox for 2 other E-mail accounts in the same personal folder
(right click on the personal folder to create a new one)
2. Tools -> rules & alerts.->newe rule
3. select from a balnk rule, select Check messages when they arrive
click next.
4. Sterp 1 select the option "through the specified account"
5. Step 2 click on text "specified" and select the account and click on
next.
6. In Step 1 Select "move it to specified folder" and in step 2 select
click specifed and select the folder now clicl next.
7. Click next if there are no exceptions.
8. Very Important if u wanna move the mails which are in the same inbox
to other's u created then select the option "run this rule now on
messages allready in the inbox " Click finish
9. Click ok and send a test mail from all the 3 accounts and it shpulg
goto corresponding inbox.

Hope it works n let me know if u have any problems

regards,
Vijay

> OE is a simple mail and news reader. Outlook has far more functionality than just as a mail client. What was programmed for OE just won't cut it for Outlook. If switching identities is the killer app for you, then by all means stick to OE.
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> || I press send/receive each email account will go to their respective
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djc122984 - 18 Nov 2006 21:44 GMT

I sent my aol address to import mail into outlook. It setup its own inbox
and when I press send/receive aol email goes to that inbox.

> You can't - Outlook uses one in-box for all mail coming into that mail profile. If you want separate inboxes, you would need separate profiles. Only one profile can be open at a time however.
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> | I have three email accounts that I import into outlook. How do I
> | setup a different inbox for each account. I want to make it so when
> | I press send/receive each email account will go to their respective
> | inboxs instead of them all just going to one inbox.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] - 19 Nov 2006 00:31 GMT

That is because AOL mail is not POP3 but IMAP mail. IMAP always gets it own inbox.

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| I sent my aol address to import mail into outlook. It setup its own
| inbox and when I press send/receive aol email goes to that inbox.
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||| I press send/receive each email account will go to their respective
||| inboxs instead of them all just going to one inbox.

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Craig - 21 Feb 2008 03:43 GMT

Big thanks to Vijay for his solution to a problem that's been vexing me for
days!

Craig

PS - Am I the only one getting a "page Cannot be Displayed" every time I log
in to post a reply?

> That is because AOL mail is not POP3 but IMAP mail. IMAP always gets it own inbox.
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> ||| I press send/receive each email account will go to their respective
> ||| inboxs instead of them all just going to one inbox.

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