Actually I did state in the original post... "Similarly, I have multiple
email accounts set up (3xIMAP). "

But anyway, on the argument that Outlook was not designed for multiple
accounts - that is the reason why the functionallity is less than adequate,
but it shouldn't preclude MS from improving the functionallity.

Certainly in the corporate environment that I work in, most people only have
one account linked to an Exchange server. However quite a few have access to
one or more IMAP accounts, and they share my frustrations with teh
implementation.


"Gordon" wrote in message
...
PlaneGuy wrote:

Nope. I have one identity that has multiple email accounts set up within
it (HTTP and IMAP accounts, though my discussion relates solely to IMAP
accounts. POP accounts may well behave differently).

POP account do indeed behave differently. In fact as POP accounts are very
much the norm, you should have stated initially what you were using.



An explanation of how OE works compared to O2003.

Snip

Yes I'm aware of that, again, you failed to mention the type of accounts
in
your post.


Firstly, we'll start with Replying to a message.

In OE6, I read a message that is sitting in the IMAP_2/Inbox. I hit
reply.
The new message box opens, and the message is identified as coming from
IMAP_2. I type my message and hit send. The message will be sent, and
will
appear in IMAP_2/Sent Items.

In O2003, I read a message that is sitting in the IMAP_2/Inbox. I hit
reply. The new message box opens, and the message is identified as coming
from IMAP_2. I type my message and hit send. The message will be sent,
and
will appear in Personal Folders/Sent Items.

Now, what is the point of having an IMAP account, when the sne item is
only stored locally, and not back to the server?

All I can say is that Outlook was not originally designed for either IMAP
or
POP accounts....



Now, a typical workflow scenario, including writing a new message:

In OE6, I read a message in IMAP_2. Finish reading that one, I move to
the
next message in IMAP_2. This one from Joe Bloggs, asks me to contact Jane
Doe. So, with the message from Joe still in the previe pane, I hit Create
Mail, type my message and hit send. The message will be sent from IMAP_2,
and will be placed into my IMAP_2/Sent Items folder.

In Outlook, I read Joe's message, hit New whilst Joe's message is still
in
the preview pane, and type the message to Jane. At this stage I have not
remembered to select "IMAP_2" from the Accounts Drop Down, and hit send.
The message gets sent from IMAP_1 as it is the default account, and then
gets saved to the Personal Folders/Sent Items Folder.

Correct


Is this behaviour not TOTALLY counterintuitive. It is certainly different
to how OE6 (and 5 before it) works, as well as different to Thunderbird,
and a few other email clients I have used over the years.

Again, the target users of Outlook (and still the vast majority of users)
are in Corporations connected to Exchange Server and who don't have more
than one account, certainly not IMAP or HTTPS or POP3.


The concept of a default email account to me is wrong in so many ways. I
have a little money making venture that I do at home, as such I have an
email account set up for . I also use the
computer for my social life, and so have , and also manage
a community organisation, and so have . Why would I
ever want to have an email that I intend to send to a business contact to
go out via my social account - that'll look pretty unprofessional.

Then set up separate Outlook Profiles. As I have said above, Outlook is
not
DESIGNED primarily for multi-account useage.




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