I have been checking and organizing my e-mails using Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 since I started blogging. A few days ago, I purchased a new domain name. Now, I have to setup Microsoft Outlook to manage both my e-mail accounts. This is when I noticed a problem (or inconvenience). All e-mails that I received from both accounts go into the same Inbox. The program did not create different set of folders for each account.
So, I googled for it and found this post, How do I receive email on different accounts into different folders in Outlook?. It was exactly what I needed. There are step-by-step guides with screenshots. Overall, that is a very good guide. After following all the steps, I was able to forward all e-mails received and sent from the second account to 2 newly created folders below.
It was simple to redirect the e-mails following the guide provided in the post. However, it would have been great if Microsoft Outlook was able to handle multiple accounts in a more efficient way. I’m thinking of changing to Mozilla’s Thunderbird 2.
Should I? What e-mail program are you using?
Google mail can manage all accounts now and store them in folders if required.
@lm
Thanks a lot for the information. I have to admit I didn’t know about it. However, I was thinking of organizing my e-mails using an “offline” program. But I agree there is pros and cons to it.
Is it possible to download all e-mails from GMail into my local drive? I’ll need to think real hard for this one. Thanks again for the information.
in a long list of Gmail features you will see “Offline access to messages”
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/about_whatsnew.html
– you will need to download Google desktop.
I cant say more – didn’t test it myself.
@lm
I’m speechless. Thanks for your help. It does look like using GMail is a good bargain after all. Unfortunately, Google limits us to 5 POP accounts only. I’ll do some comparison and see which I prefer. Thanks again for your help.
yw,
and in exchange will be waiting for your extensive review of the gmail
@lm
LOL. OK. I’ll do a review on it together with the Google Desktop thing. But it will probably be out earliest next week. Stay tuned!