Imap E-mail setup questions
 

Is Imap the best way to set up my outlook if I have multiple accounts and multiple computers?

For instance I have [email protected] and [email protected] and [email protected] etc. and I have a computer at my home and 2 at my office that I want to all be synched so that I can reply to e-mails from any of the terminals.

I am assuming imap is the best way to go but wanted to wait to hear from the experts that may have a better alternative.

Thanks in advance

Yes IMAP is by far the best way to go. Stores all your email and folders on the server, so no matter where you check your mail its always organized they way you like. Any time you have an email account that needs to be checked from multiple locations, its the best solution. I highly recommend using it and leaving POP3 in the dust.

Thank you very much drjones for your reply.

An imap a day keep s the dr away :winkwink:

As a IMAP newbie are you able to tell if you have already answered the same email on another computer?

Yep! Sure does.. for a quick comparison between POP and IMAP, check this out:

http://www.imap.org/papers/imap.vs.pop.brief.html

Drjones thank you for answering the last question.

I wonder if you can help me with this new one. I am running into a problem where I have my old pop folders and setting satying put even though I uninstalled outlook and the whole office suite from my hard drive and then re-installed it. I want to have a clean setup with out my old pop settings and rules, folders etc.

TIA :thumbsup

just delete your pop account from outlook in your account settings.. but before you do that, you can drag all your old pop emails that arent in your imap account back to your imap account so you dont lose your old emails. You'll have to redo all your filters one by one. Create the folders you want in your imap mail box and change the filters to send the mail to those folders instead of your local pop folders. That should do it

I did that but for some reason everything is there. I have the personal folders with my old inbox and e-mails and then below it in another tree is the imap folder. I want to get rid of everything but the imap folder. Any other ideas?

I think I got it. I deleted the outlook profile and needed to create the account over again which is what I wanted to do.

Thanks guys :thumbsup

Let me ask you this though, when setting up the incoming mail server (Imap) do i just use the same info as I would for pop such as mail.domain.com

For outgoing mail server smtp smtpout.secureserver.net

Does that sound about right?

yea that sounds right.. the server does have to have imap turned on for it to work. If there is no imap service running on the server changing the outlook settings isnt going to work.