Integrate multiple IMAP4 accounts in Outlook 2003

[rileymartin]

Hi,

I use Outlook 2003 to access my company email. I would like to also
access multiple email accouts (Hotmail, Yahoo, Netscape) with IMAP4. I
tried this and when I'm in Outlook, I click on the inbox folder for one of
the IMAP accounts, such as Hotmail, and I open a new email to send, it gets
sent using the outgoing email address of my Exchange account and not the
Hotmail account. The same thing happens if I click on the Yahoo or Netscape
folders/accounts I created in Outlook. All email gets sent using my company
Exchange email address as opposed to the individual accounts/addresses I
setup. When I set up the individual IMAP4 accounts in Outlook, I specified
the email address to use, the IMAP server to connect to as well as the SMTP
server to connect to. What am I doing wrong?

Does anyone know how to set this up? Thanks.

Riley

 

[Brian Tillman]

I use Outlook 2003 to access my company email. I would like to
also access multiple email accouts (Hotmail, Yahoo, Netscape) with
IMAP4.

Hotmail and Yahoo don't allow IMAP accounts.

I tried this and when I'm in Outlook, I click on the inbox
folder for one of the IMAP accounts, such as Hotmail, and I open a
new email to send, it gets sent using the outgoing email address of
my Exchange account and not the Hotmail account.

Did you select the correct account before sending the message? Exchange
tends to take over as the outgoing account.

 

[rileymartin]

Thanks, I didn't see that option. That's working now.

I also have one account setup for POP3 and new email is going into the
Exchange account instead of the POP3 account. New email for the IMAP
accounts correctly go into their respective folders however new email for the
POP3 account goes into the Inbox in the Exchange account. Do you know what
may be causing this? Thanks.

Riley

 

[Brian Tillman]

I also have one account setup for POP3 and new email is going into the
Exchange account instead of the POP3 account. New email for the IMAP
accounts correctly go into their respective folders however new email
for the POP3 account goes into the Inbox in the Exchange account. Do
you know what may be causing this? Thanks.

That's the way Outlook 2003 works. All POP mail gets delivered to the
delivery location Inbox, which would be your Exchange mailbox's Inbox. IMAP
and HTTP accounts get their own cache because messages stay on the server,
but not for POP accounts. Instead, you can create another folder to act as
the POP account's Inbox and use a rule to delivery the messages received via
the POP account to that folder. The folder can be in the Exchange mailbox
or another PST, if you wish.

 

[rileymartin]

Thank you! You are the man!

That's the way Outlook 2003 works. All POP mail gets delivered to the
delivery location Inbox, which would be your Exchange mailbox's Inbox. IMAP
and HTTP accounts get their own cache because messages stay on the server,
but not for POP accounts. Instead, you can create another folder to act as
the POP account's Inbox and use a rule to delivery the messages received via
the POP account to that folder. The folder can be in the Exchange mailbox
or another PST, if you wish.