If you setup Outlook with multiple email accounts, can you setup multiple inbox, outbox, sent folders? I want to setup my personal as well as a couple different business email accounts so I can just open it, click send/receive and then have them all load into seperate folders so everything is seperate. Just not sure if it's possible or not.

 

you'd probably have to set up folders and rules for each account

 

You set up multiple profiles, using the Mail icon in Control Panel which is installed with Outlook. When you open Outlook, you'll be prompted to choose a profile, and only that profile will open, so all folders in that profile will be separate from those in the other profiles.

 

I assume these accounts are all standard POP3/IMAP internet email. None of them are against an Exchange server are they?

My only experience with multiple accounts is when using Outlook against an Exchange server. When doing so, if you have multiple accounts open at the same time, items you send are going to go into the sent items folder of your mail profile's primary account.

 

I'm pretty sure it does everything you're asking for by default as does any other email program I can think of. You have a least three separate email accounts and want the inbox, outbox and drafts folders to be separate from each other? They all do that by default nothing to worry about.

 

I've used outlook for three email accounts and it by default keeps everything separate

 

Mine dumps them all in the same folders. All accounts are POP accounts.

 

I don't want to log into different profiles to check each account. I want to hit send receive, and just have seperate folders to check

 

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For pop3/smtp, if you want them to remain separate, you need to create a separate personal mail folder(*.pst file) for each. In your mail accounts you click on each mail account and tell it to deliver mail to that file, that will keep a separate set of mail folders for each email account.

For web based mail like hotmail, they should remain separate by default. In my case, I have my ISP mail(pop) as a folder, and hotmail as a secondary account, both have separate folders. I use the hotmail to keep spam out of my main account.

 

I don't get it. What outlook are you using? This is what my Outlook looks like with three different email accounts, all have separate inboxes, outbox, draft, deleted, etc folders. I did nothing special to enable this I just add my three accounts.

 

Inbound shouldn't be a problem. It's outbound/sent mail that there may be an issue keeping things separate.

Stunna, using your example Outlook is going to file outbound messages from the Gmail and Hotmail accounts under the single sent items folder that you see under your "full name" account. Again though, I'm basing this on how Outlook deals with multiple Exchange-based accounts. Things may be different when dealing with traditional POP3/IMAP mail accounts.

 

New Outlook question:

Outlook 2003, Word 2010

When I open a new email, I don't have, nor can I add through "customize" the 'sweep formatting' icon.

WTH?

 

Never heard of this 'sweep formatting' icon.

 

Format painter is the correct term, I think...

 

I suspect it's because Outlook 2003 has no idea how to use Word 2010 as an editor. Upgrade your Outlook man!

 

Yeah, that's what I figured.