MS Outlook 2003

[deronsizemore]

I've always used Mozilla Thunderbird for all of my email needs, but like the way Outlook is set up with the mail, calendar, tasks, etc.

One thing that I can't seem to figure out with Outlook is this. I've got three email addresses currently, and I'd like to set up a separate mailbox for all three. Now, I've tried going to tools>email accounts>create new email account and it works fine, but every time I recieve email to one of these three addresses, they all pile up in my global inbox if you will, and I have to sort through everything to figure out who sent what and to where.

I'm trying to figure out how to set up three separte mailboxes for each of my three email addresses. For each address, I want to have it's own Inbox, Sent Items, Deleted Items, etc...

Is this even possible with Outlook 2003?

[renegade600]

setup a filter so when mail is received from a specific address it will auto go into its own folder. As far as delete and sent mail stuff, I am not sure you can do that unless you do the drag thing. Someone who uses outlook will have to be more specific.

[oracle128]

The filter is the easiest way. The closest thing you can get to what you want is the setup a new Outlook Data File for each email account. However, you will need to manually setup an Inbox folder for it and still use a rule to put mail in it, and sent mail will still go to the main Sent Folder, don't know how to change that behaviour, don't think it's possible. Each Data File will have its own Deleted Items though.

[Snurfen]

I think there may be crossed wires here, you're both right in what you say but I think you may be talking at crossed purposes.
You can setup all external email accounts to come into a single outlook postbox.
When they hit that postbox, create a rule using the wizard to move mail sent to "xyz" into folder "xyz" which you will have created under your inbox folder.
Repeat for the other two external accounts.
There should only be one deleted mail bin in this scenario.

Is this any clearer or am I just making it worse for you deron?

[renegade600]

I think there may be crossed wires here, you're both right in what you say but I think you may be talking at crossed purposes.
You can setup all external email accounts to come into a single outlook postbox.
When they hit that postbox, create a rule using the wizard to move mail sent to "xyz" into folder "xyz" which you will have created under your inbox folder.
Repeat for the other two external accounts.
There should only be one deleted mail bin in this scenario.

Is this any clearer or am I just making it worse for you deron?

theres no crossed wires here. you basically repeated what I said. :rotflmao:

[Snurfen]

sorry mate, I'm just not used to seeing the sun. Clouded my vision :p

[deronsizemore]

Hey, thanks for all of the replies on this topic. I know how to set up the filters, and since the general consensus is that it is the easiest way, I will just go that route. I've been playing with Outlook all night trying to set up like a whole separt mailbox complete with your inbox, sent, deleted etc...so that when mail was received to that address it would just go into the corresponding inbox, but with little progress in finding how to do it.

I'll just use the filters, it's no big deal really, filters was how I had it set up when I used Thunderbird and it was fine...I just rencently switched to Outlook though.

Thanks