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Personal Data Files
I'm using Outlook 2003 running under XP and talking to two Hotmail accounts.
My personal folders box shows 3 groups of personal files: one for each hotmail account and one which is the default mail delivery location for hotmail. All 3 groups have sent, delete, inbox, etc. folders. The inbox in the 'mail delivery location is always empty'; however the delete and sent folders are filled from both of the corresponding folders in each of the 2 hotmail account folder groups. To delete messages, I have to delete them in the appropriate hotmail account folder as well as pick them out of the folder in the 'mail delivery location' folder, which is redundant and of course a little silly. Is there a way to make each hotmail account folder group the default location for the respective hotmail account so I can delete the redundant (and confusing) third group of folders? Or is there a way, when I delete messages from one of the hotmail account folders, to trigger the deletion of those same messages in the corresponding folder in the 'mail delivery' group? A related question: if I set a very short 'life' to messages in the sent and delete folders in the "mail delivery location" group, will that in any way impact the duplicate version of those messages held in the corresponding folder under the hotmail account? -- Al |
Personal Data Files
Al wrote:
Is there a way to make each hotmail account folder group the default location for the respective hotmail account so I can delete the redundant (and confusing) third group of folders? Nope. Outlook requires one set of default folders to act as the delivery location and Hotmail folders can never be the default unless you're using Outlook Live and Hotmail Premium. Or is there a way, when I delete messages from one of the hotmail account folders, to trigger the deletion of those same messages in the corresponding folder in the 'mail delivery' group? I just tested this and deleting from a Hotmail folder places the deleted item in Hotmail's Deleted Items folder and not in the Outlook default folder. Sending, however, is another matter. Outlook will always use the delivery location Outbox when sending messages and once sent, your message will be moved to the delivery location's Sent Items folder. That will never by Hotmail's Sent Items folder unless you create a rule to move outgoing messages to that folder. A related question: if I set a very short 'life' to messages in the sent and delete folders in the "mail delivery location" group, will that in any way impact the duplicate version of those messages held in the corresponding folder under the hotmail account? I can't reproduce what you see. It doesn't work that way as far as I can tell. -- Brian Tillman |
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