Vista Tutorial - Can I lose all all those inboxes?

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.

I have already tested deleting an account's folder set in the left pane, and
as expected, it deletes the email account from Tools>Accounts, the behavior
I would not like to see. Adding the email account recreates its folder
tree. We're stuck with the same subset of folders for every email account
WLM imports or you create.

Regards,
Ryder


"a3dvm" <a3dvm@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quick views already combines all of the accounts into one view.
Right click on Quick views, select Quick views.
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Ronald Sommer

"a3dvm" <a3dvm@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks Ryder - that's what I suspected.
I guess a year from now - with luck and a few updates noting user preference
- this might start working how we would like?
I've tried Outlook several times, and given up due to too many complexities.
All I ever need is just a simple 'go get it and show me' program.
Waited a long time hoping for a better looking OE update - but this only
looks good.
To add insult to injury - clicking the email link MS sent me to advise of
your response just showed a blank web page.......hmmmm.
a3dvm

"Ryder" wrote:

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:

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

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:

If you don't need to access a Hotmail account, there is no
compelling need to switch from OE to WLM. I had no choice,
having only Vista on my computers.

--
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (WLMail)


"a3dvm" <a3dvm@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:81804A41-0BA7-48F6-9513-A619CA781E59@xxxxxx

I agree. I'm holding off Vista for a while and no hotmail to worry about.
This issue adds another reason not to go to Vista.....
a3dvm

"Gary VanderMolen" wrote: