Outlook is a power user's client, especially for those who need calendaring
and automation, and it works best with Exchange server accounts. It's
support for IMAP is getting better.... but its not as good as other clients.
(It was awful before.)

A lot of people say t-bird is a better for IMAP - what don't you like about
it?

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"Don" wrote in message
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Some groups and maillists prefer related questions all be in one message
instead of several messages. I'll remember the etiquette here for future
messages. Thanks for the heads-up.

I've always thought of Outlook as a power user's email client and avoided
its complexity until I had too much email and thought it would be the
proper client to handle it all. Your insight may push me back to
Thunderbird or Windows Mail and Outlook Express. Unfortunately they also
have shortcomings I would rather avoid. Tough decision coming. One big
plus for Thunderbird is it is available as a portable application which
makes it VERY easy to move to the various computers I use.

Thanks for your terrific explanations and answers.

Hmmmmmm. I just noticed. Outlook marked the original text in this reply.
Maybe it will work in an HTML reply too. Maybe Outlook needed to exit and
restart for that change to take effect.

Don

"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote in message
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As an FYI - It's a lot easier to post each question (or two) in a
separate message - long posts are harder to read and respond to and may
people skip over the end.

I'm not sure why you thought Outlook would be easier to use to manage
that many accounts. It tends to be "less than fully satisfying" (quoting
someone who posted yesterday) when working with IMAP accounts.

to apply a view to all folders, see
http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/grouping.htm. Note that views on IMAP
folders are harder to affect and they often revert this method may not
work on the IMAP accounts. Creating a custom view and selecting it when
you view the folder might work better.

No, you can't change how/when the folders expand. Folders usually do
expand when you get new messages in them so you may be able to set the
folders to update automatically to make them expand - but as I mentioned
earlier, IMAP in outlook sucks, so it may not work for IMAP accounts.

The vertical line in HTML is how html format prefixes. If you want you
need to read all mail in plain text. If you hate the vertical line use
the reply option that doesn't prefix.

Outlook is not outlook express and has never displayed images inline
(other than embedded images in HTML). You need to select them to preview
in Outlook 2007. See http://www.slipstick.com/mail1/inline.asp for more
info. You obviously need to download attachments in IMAP to be able to
view them, but they should be previewable in the IMAP folders, just as
they would be in other folders.

Rather than trusting mail from yourself, trust mail to and from the
mailing list - most lists are configured to have the list address as the
to or from.

You can have all pop delivered to one inbox or set each to go to a
different folder but not IMAP. IMAP is a server account and you download
copies of the messages. Each account needs its own folder or all the mail
will be uploaded to one IMAP account. if you use rules to move IMAP mail
to a different mailbox they will be marked for deletion from the IMAP
account.

Outlook is a mail client, not a newsreader. It's primarily an exchange
client and MAPI doesn't handle NNTP. Businesses don't usually want users
to access newsgroups - they'd rather have the effort put into making
outlook a great PIM. There are some NNTP addins you can use. See
http://outlook-tips.net/howto/news.htm - newshound is nice and supports
reading the TechNet and msdn forums.

There are sync tools you can use to share across multiple computers but
IMAP is probably better than any sync tool, unless you also need to share
calendar and contacts. Honestly, if there are clients that let you keep
all IMAP accounts in one inbox, you may be better using it than outlook.
See http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/sync.asp and
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/share.asp for utilities and methods.



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Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]