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Combined Inbox for Email (PC)
« on: April 24, 2017, 02:14:33 PM »
Hi All,

I have multiple email addresses and some are IMAP and some are POP. I'm having trouble combining them all into one inbox, for convenient viewing, on Microsoft Outlook (2007).

Can someone guide me on how to do this in Microsoft Outlook or perhaps recommend a desktop or web based application that can provide this convenience for me? I am willing to pay for such an inbox.

An important point though, when replying to an email in this inbox, I must be able to send it from any of the subscribed email accounts.

Many thanks,
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Re: Combined Inbox for Email (PC)
« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2017, 02:34:13 PM »
Hi All,

I have multiple email addresses and some are IMAP and some are POP. I'm having trouble combining them all into one inbox, for convenient viewing, on Microsoft Outlook (2007).

Can someone guide me on how to do this in Microsoft Outlook or perhaps recommend a desktop or web based application that can provide this convenience for me? I am willing to pay for such an inbox.

An important point though, when replying to an email in this inbox, I must be able to send it from any of the subscribed email accounts.

Many thanks,
MeilechE
You can't combine POP and IMAP into one place AFAIK, unless you set them to forward to one and have the inbox program sync (IMAP) to that one.

What might work is to have them all forward to a gmail account, and you can set up that gmail so it can send from any.

If you want a desktop app:

I've found that Outlook and IMAP doesn't always work well with gmail. You can try it, and if it doesn't work and you still want to use Outlook, you may want to pay for a google apps account. Then you could use Google Apps Sync for MS Outlook, which works very well.

Or you can look into gmail offline apps, i've seen them mentioned on DDF before but don't remember where.
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Re: Combined Inbox for Email (PC)
« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2017, 11:08:00 PM »
I've found that Outlook and IMAP doesn't always work well with gmail.
What? I set that up all the time. You need to enable IMAP in Gmail, Enable Less Secure Apps in Gmail, and sometimes manually enter port and server for Gmail. But never had it shouldn't work.

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Re: Combined Inbox for Email (PC)
« Reply #3 on: April 24, 2017, 11:19:04 PM »
What? I set that up all the time. You need to enable IMAP in Gmail, Enable Less Secure Apps in Gmail, and sometimes manually enter port and server for Gmail. But never had it shouldn't work.
My gmail account is pretty big. I haven't tried since I upgraded to Office 2010 (from 2007), but it used to prompt me for login info all the time, and crash during syncing often. This was even after I set up the port info.
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Re: Combined Inbox for Email (PC)
« Reply #4 on: April 25, 2017, 01:40:37 AM »
What? I set that up all the time. You need to enable IMAP in Gmail, Enable Less Secure Apps in Gmail, and sometimes manually enter port and server for Gmail. But never had it shouldn't work.
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My gmail account is pretty big. I haven't tried since I upgraded to Office 2010 (from 2007), but it used to prompt me for login info all the time, and crash during syncing often. This was even after I set up the port info.
I limited syncing to 6 months because of it.

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Re: Combined Inbox for Email (PC)
« Reply #5 on: April 25, 2017, 06:28:16 AM »
It's gotten better in the newer Office editions.
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Re: Combined Inbox for Email (PC)
« Reply #6 on: April 25, 2017, 12:13:54 PM »
+1I limited syncing to 6 months because of it.
But I like to lookup and search for older emails. That's why now i just use the online interface.
It's gotten better in the newer Office editions.
Good to know!
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Re: Combined Inbox for Email (PC)
« Reply #7 on: April 25, 2017, 01:10:50 PM »
But I like to lookup and search for older emails. That's why now i just use the online interface.Good to know!
IINM outlook search is different from gmail's online search anyway

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Re: Combined Inbox for Email (PC)
« Reply #8 on: April 25, 2017, 01:11:28 PM »
IINM outlook search is different from gmail's online search anyway
Yeah I know
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