Vista - Multiple Accounts - Use ONE Inbox?

I imported a selection of email accounts from OE. Each one seems to
have created its own separate Inbox, Drafts, Sent, etc.

Can I get WLM to put the mail from all accounts in the default
folders? I don't want to keep all these accounts separate - and
anything I do want to separate I will do using filter rules. Managing
10 separate mail accounts like it is now would be a serious chore.

Thanks,

On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:22:02 -0400, +Bob+ wrote:
One of the drawbacks of WLM is that it sets up separate folders for separate
email accounts; even if they are POP3 accounts. Because I don't use WLM for
POP3 email, I don't miss the MSOE habit of dumping all email into one set of
folders. However, that is the nature of WLM.

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Norman
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"N. Miller" <anonymous@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:16q0ml0weufgk$.dlg@xxxxxxIt is a drawback if you want all email dumped into one Inbox, but then that
is the purpose of Quick views, to read all email in one place.
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Ronald Sommer

Quick views lets you view all email in one place.
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Ronald Sommer

"+Bob+" <uctraing@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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BUT you get DUPLICATE and TRIPLICATE, et cetera, copies of the SAME message.
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DSH
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"Ron Sommer" <rsommer@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi, Spencer.

No, you just get several ways to see the SAME message.

Read one message in Quick views, then delete it. It will also be deleted
from whichever Inbox it was really in. Or delete it from that Inbox and it
will disappear from Quick views, too. But, for a while at least, it will
still be in that Account's Deleted items subfolder and can be read (and
permanently deleted) from there.

Other options abound, but the basic function is to give us several ways to
access a message: The first way is the Inbox and other folders (Drafts,
Sent items, Junk e-mail, Deleted items) within the Account where the message
really belongs. IF we choose (right-click Quick views and click Select
quick views...), we can also see the contents of All the Inboxes in Quick
views. And then the message can be saved in one of the many subfolders
under Storage Folders, again, IF we choose. Our choices can be made
"manually" or by creating Mail Rules (or in Tools | Safety options...).

It's the same original message, not a copy of it, but it can be viewed from
multiple perspectives.

The system makes sense, once we adjust our mindset for it. ;^}

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@xxxxxx
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1)

"D. Spencer Hines" <panther@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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The problem with moving messages with messages rules that are applied to
incoming messages is it makes it hard to search through the folders and find
the unread email.
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Ronald Sommer

"R. C. White" <rc@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:15:45 -0500, "R. C. White" <rc@xxxxxx>
wrote:

No, it doesn't make sense if you have more than two or three email
accounts. Note everyone meets MS's implied definition of "one yahoo
account, one hotmail account, and an ISP account". For those of use
with lots of email accounts to fetch it's a useless product.

You have to wonder where MS comes up with these solutions that are
reverse evolution. Then again, half of Vista is reverse evolution and
the removal of useful features, so I guess it's par for them these
days.

It certainly is different than OE..but there is some commonality to OE and OL when one considers the millions of OE capable http
accounts still using WebDAV
ie. For multiple Live ID accounts..it's no different than OE that creates a separate http account for each accessible Live
ID(hotmail.com, msn.com, or live.com) and consistent with Outlook for http accounts or the Outlook Connector for http accounts.

I've multiple accounts in WLM, don't particularly care for the Quick Views function and prefer to keep my mail separate for pop3
and http accounts..

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...winston
ms-mvp mail



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"+Bob+" <uctraing@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:35sk84lc5vt8bqteov156jpucfsph0irjo@xxxxxx

Thank you kindly.

It still makes for lots of extra keystrokes and clicks that are superfluous.
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DSH
Lux et Veritas et Libertas
Vires et Honor

"R. C. White" <rc@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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