Re: Outlook 2007 - IMAP accounts - is using one inbox possible?

Thank You Brian. Much appreciated.
I was getting a bit confused reading some of the other threads as some
seemed to indicate you could share an inbox. Then I ran across a thread from
2005 that specifically mentionned IMAP and POP3/Exchange accounts and it
indicated that, as you confirmed, only POP3/Exchange accounts can share
inboxes and that IMAP can not.
I was also sure I had seen somewhere in the outlook settings as I was poking
around yesterday, an option/checkbox for sharing of inboxes, but for the life
of me I could not find it again so I figured a question to this forum would
be in order.
I was thinking, as you also suggest, that a rule might also work for this. I
will investigate that option as well.
The accounts I am using happen to be GMAIL accounts, and they do support
both POP3 and IMAP access. I chose IMAP because I need to access these
accounts from a couple of different machines (home and office and a
Blackberry) and IMAP offers (as I understand it) the best options for keeping
all 3 access points in sync.

Thanks again for the quick and informative reply to my origianl post.

Mike

"Brian Tillman" wrote:

MikeT <MikeT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I just installed Outlook 2007 and have a couple of internet IMAP email
accounts set up. Each seems to use it's own inbox in Outlook 2007
(and it's own PST file).

That's how IMAP in Outlook works, not only for Outlook 2007, but for every
other Outlook version allowing IMAP accounts.

I have not been able to figure out if I can
have all incoming email from all of the accounts be received into the
same default outlook inbox.

That's because, for IMAP, you can't.

When I select account properties for
example there is no 'change folder' option for these accounts.
In reading all the various other threads in here about multiple
inboxes I seem to be seeing that when the email accounts are
configured as IMAP they automatically have their own distinct inbox
in Outlook.

Correct,

It believe I read that if they were configured as POP3
(or Exchange) instead of IMAP then they would/could use the main
inbox. (I chose IMAP because I wanted to use some of the features
that IMAP offers for synchronization.)

This is correct. Multiple POP accounts (or Exchange and POP accounts) share
a common Inbox, although with Outlook 2007, you can have separate Inboxes if
you want. But you can't simply change an IMAP account to an Exchange or POP
account. The server must support those account types.

Is this correct or is there a way to have 2 IMAP email accounts share
the same Outlook 2007 inbox?

It's possible you could use a rule to move messages that arrive in one IMAP
account to a separate folder, perhaps even the other IMAP account's Inbox,
but I haven't tried it.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]


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