Thanks Gary, I'll give that a try.
Though I have to confess a short while ago I openend OE again, and found it
so easy to use with just one inbox and one sent mail folder - and no
extraneous clutter of uneccesary accounts.
I'll try your method, but I'm leaning toward going back to OE, as the only
benefit of the aesthetically pleasing gui, doesn't outweigh the downsides for
me.
At least WLM it's not as bad as AOL!
a3dvm
"Gary VanderMolen" wrote:
Quote:
> During the beta testing phase, we repeatedly asked the developers
> to give us an alternate OE-like combined folders view, but the
> only response was to use QuickView folders.
>
> I have 10 POP accounts, and for neatness and manageability
> I keep them collapsed to one line each. I do all my reading and
> deleting from the QuickView folders, which I have organized as
> follows: Unread e-mail, All inbox, All sent items, All junk e-mail.
> I seldom have to go into the individual account folders anymore.
> About once a week I go to the individual Deleted Items folders
> and empty them.
> --
> Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (WLMail)
>
>
> "a3dvm" <a3dvm@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:8735F135-BE71-4051-8AC4-4EC3F418ABE4@xxxxxx Quote:
> > Thanks for the reply Ron, but had tried that.
> > With all the QuickView items (except the first mandatory one) unchecked -
> > you still get to see all the accounts you have, and they are all actively
> > receiving / sending / requiring deletion of mail. This just makes 5 times the
> > work for my 5 accounts.
> > And as I can't seem to turn off auto checking (subject of another post) I'm
> > downloading spam that MailWasher should be trapping first.
> > a3dvm.
> >
> > "Ron Sommer" wrote:
> > Quote:
> >> Quick views already combines all of the accounts into one view.
> >> Right click on Quick views, select Quick views.
> >> --
> >> Ronald Sommer
> >>
> >> "a3dvm" <a3dvm@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> >> news:65722DD0-F025-46C5-8208-5700042A5EC6@xxxxxx
> >> > Just upped to Windows Live Mail from longtime Outlook Express use.
> >> > I use 5 mail addresses, so have 5 accounts showing in the left hand pane
> >> > before I get to even see my storage folders. (yes, I moved them up and
> >> > they
> >> > slid down next time opened - is that a bug?)
> >> > Then I have emails coming in to each account, sent emails from each
> >> > account,
> >> > and I can't find anything quickly, and I'm getting confused where things
> >> > end
> >> > up.
> >> > I've set up message rules to copy all incoming mail to the Storage Folders
> >> > inbox so I have a 'One Stop Shop' for emails.
> >> > But I still have to manually drag or copy sent mail to Sent Items, and
> >> > delete all the originals from the individual accounts. What a pain!
> >> >
> >> > What I would like is basically what I had in Outlook Express - 1 set of
> >> > inbox, Outbox, and Sent messages. (plus a few of my own for specific
> >> > items)
> >> > Nice and simple where I know where everything is and do things once! I'd
> >> > like
> >> > to delete all the separate account stuff and just have messages go in to
> >> > the
> >> > storage folders - is that possible? It looks to me that doing that will
> >> > simply delete the accounts altogether - and that's not what I want.
> >> > I know Outlook Express is old and boring to look at, while Windows Live
> >> > Mail
> >> > is very attractive - but unless someone can help me with an answer to
> >> > these
> >> > issues, think I'll migrate back again.
> >> > Thanks.
> >>
> >>
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