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  DrFrylock Registered User regular

  August 2007 edited August 2007

  1. I have not used Outlook in a long time, but this should be possible.
  
  2. There is a menu option somewhere to configure accounts. You want to add a second account, with the information from the other POP account.
  
  3. In one of the tabs on the account information dialog, there will be an option to leave messages on the server, or leave messages on the server for X days. Without turning these on, downloading a message from a POP account generally deletes that message from the server. That means when the other mail client goes to check the same account, the message will already be gone. I recommend setting up both computers to leave messages on the server for 14-30 days. That way, as long as you check mail on both machines at least once every X days, you will get all your mail in both places. You don't want to generally leave messages there forever, because they tend to pile up.
  
  4. I believe there is also a configuration option that lets you specify where you want the mail delivered. I like all my mail in one place so I have it all sent to Inbox (my default). If it is not a configuration option in the account setup dialog, you can make a filter. This is slightly more complicated.

  DrFrylock on August 2007

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  embrik Registered User regular

  August 2007 edited August 2007

  DrFrylock wrote: »

  3. In one of the tabs on the account information dialog, there will be an option to leave messages on the server, or leave messages on the server for X days. Without turning these on, downloading a message from a POP account generally deletes that message from the server. That means when the other mail client goes to check the same account, the message will already be gone. I recommend setting up both computers to leave messages on the server for 14-30 days. That way, as long as you check mail on both machines at least once every X days, you will get all your mail in both places. You don't want to generally leave messages there forever, because they tend to pile up.

  
  
  Unless I'm misreading something, I don't think the OP has to worry about this. He's not going to be checking account X from two devices, he's simply going to be checking two separate accounts from one program on only one device... unless I have that wrong...
  
  In any case, I'm not too familiar with Outlook, but I do know Mozilla Thunderbird VERY well, and I use it to check five different email accounts. They all have separate inbox, sent, trash, etc views. When I send a message, I can choose which account it is sent from via a handy drop-down box (replies default to the account they were received from). Four of the five accounts are POP3, the other is IMAP. The whole thing runs beautifully.
  
  And yes, you can import your mail and contacts into it (I believe it will even ask you if you want to when you install it)
  However, if you want to stick with Outlook, that's cool too. I know that multiple accounts aren't a problem, I just don't know how to configure it to split up your mail, but I'm sure someone here does.

  embrik on August 2007

  "Damn you and your Daily Doubles, you brigand!"
  
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  zhen_rogue Registered User regular

  August 2007 edited August 2007

  embrik wrote: »

  Unless I'm misreading something, I don't think the OP has to worry about this. He's not going to be checking account X from two devices, he's simply going to be checking two separate accounts from one program on only one device... unless I have that wrong...

  
  This is correct - two separate POP3 accounts, one program (outlook), one device.

  zhen_rogue on August 2007

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