Using Outlook and Outlook Express at same time

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stevebozz - 17 Dec 2003 22:12 GMT

We use Outlook for our main e-mail account and outlook express to manag
about 7 other e-mail accounts.

Questions:

1. Is this the best way to handle this? Outlook doesn't appear t
support multiple identities.

2. The contacts in Outlook and Outlook Express are the same, how ca
this be? I discovered this the hard way when I deleted all th
contacts out of one of the identities and it deleted them in Outlook a
well! How can I make sure they all have seperate address books?

3. Does OE use .pst files or does it still use the PAB format?

Using: Outlook 2000, OE 6

Thanks!
Stev

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stevebozz - 17 Dec 2003 22:23 GMT

I also just found a default.wab file with different distribution lists
and contacts. It's called Shared Contacts.

What's this!?

They certainly don't make this easy.

Steve

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stevebozz - 18 Dec 2003 19:11 GMT

I am running in IMO mode.

We have a main, catch-all email address (ie mail@myserver.com) and the
a handful of personal e-mail accounts (steve@myserver, mary@myserver
etc)

In Outlook, it seems the only way to handle this is to create multipl
"Accounts" and have them collect all the emails at once. The reason w
use OE is because it allows for the Switching Identities, which is mor
in line with how we want our e-mail program to work.

Any suggestions? Thanks
Stev

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 18 Dec 2003 21:15 GMT

You seem to be using the term e-mail address and e-mail account
interchangeably, which is confusing. It's still not clear what it is you
need to do. Are you trying to keep the messages from each email account in
separate stores and available only to one person or does everyone need
access to each of these accounts?

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stevebozz - 22 Dec 2003 19:58 GMT

We have 5 e-mail accounts.

I don't want to have one click of the S/R button collecting mail from
all 5 accounts. I'd like the user to select the email account and have
the program switch to that account, change to that particular e-mail
account settings and download e-mail. This is basically what OE does
with Identities, can outlook do this?

Thanks
Steve

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 23 Dec 2003 12:09 GMT

IMO does not support separate user profiles unless you create separate
Windows user logons.
Just use Tools > Send/Receive > to poll each account separately.

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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 18 Dec 2003 01:11 GMT

20 questions here.

Is this the best way to handle what? Tell us what you are trying to do. Hard
to imagine that having two separate email programs is the best way to handle
anything. Post your mail support mode of Outlook 2000 while you're
answering.

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