Ok, here's something that has always confused/frustrated me: I've just set
up
Outlook 2003 on a new PC with my hosted Exchange account, then added in my
four IMAP accounts. No other settings were changed, so everything is
default. I've
added each of the IMAP inboxes as "Favorite Folders".

Here's the problem: it doesn't check for email until I click into the Inbox
via the Favorites Folder. I get no bolded numbers showing me new email
messages. Once I've clicked on each inbox once, it seems to show that inbox
"live" for the rest of that Outlook session.

Before I started randomly mucking with send/receive settings and whatnot, I
thought I'd ask here if there was a "best practices" way of configuring
Outlook 2003 for my particular scenario. Thanks for any insight. :-)

- Jason Dunn