Combining mailboxes or not?

[Jessica]

I have Outlook 2007 Business Contacts Manager. I have two email accounts:
Comcast for personal
Exchange server for my job
I want to combine all my emails from both accounts into one mailbox. I
currently
have what appears to be three mailboxes. One for my exchange server emails,
personal and then an archives mailbox. I want to have them all together so
there is only one place to look.
Also, I have another laptop at work that I would like to set up to work
identically to my laptop at home running the same software. Is there a way to
set it up so everything on my home laptop email is on my office laptop? Thank
you.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

I have Outlook 2007 Business Contacts Manager. I have two email accounts:
Comcast for personal
Exchange server for my job
I want to combine all my emails from both accounts into one mailbox. I
currently
have what appears to be three mailboxes. One for my exchange server emails,
personal and then an archives mailbox. I want to have them all together so
there is only one place to look.
Also, I have another laptop at work that I would like to set up to work
identically to my laptop at home running the same software. Is there a way
to
set it up so everything on my home laptop email is on my office laptop?

First, why are you archiving messages if you don't want them moved out of your
main folders? That's the whole purpose of archiving: to move older messages
out of your main folders into the Archive PST. If you want those messages
back in your main folders, first open each folder in the Archive hierarchy,
select all the items in it with Ctrl-A, then move the selection to the
appropriate folder in the main folder tree. Once done, right-click the root
of the Archive tree, choose Close, then click Tools>Options>Other>AutoArchive
and disable autoarchiving.

Second, Outlook's default behavior is to always share a main folder set
between Exchange and all other POP accounts for all accounts in the same mail
profile. You don't state how many profiles you have, so just based on what
you say (and not on what you've left unsaid), you must be deliberately
separating your incoming messages via a rule if your work and personal mail is
not using the same main folders. So, delete the rule and the separation will
stop. You can then move the contents of the Personal Folders to the Exchange
folders the same way you moved the Archive folder contents and you can then
delete the Personal Folders PST.