Folders on My Computer

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steve.bell

My Mac is on an Outlook Exchange server network that is primarily
comprised of PC's. I have set up an exchange account in order to
retrieve my e-mail from the server. However, incoming messages are
seemingly arbitrarily routed to the Inbox under "Folders on My
Computer" rather than the Inbox in my Exchange Account. I am
continually having to move everything out of the "Folders on My
Computer" Inbox to my Exchange Account Inbox. Is there a preferences
setting that will override that default and send everything to the
Inbox in my Exchange Account? I can't seem to find it.
 
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Corentin Cras-Méneur

However, incoming messages are
seemingly arbitrarily routed to the Inbox under "Folders on My
Computer" rather than the Inbox in my Exchange Account.
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Check the rules for your Exchange account. A rebuilt of the database has
probably messed up the rules destination and one of them might be
pointing to the On my computer folders instead of the Exchange ones.

Corentin
 
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steve.bell

Check the rules for your Exchange account. A rebuilt of the database has
probably messed up the rules destination and one of them might be
pointing to the On my computer folders instead of the Exchange ones.

Corentin
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Thanks for the tip, but there were no rules enabled. I tried creating
one directing all messages to my Exchange Inbox and then sent a text
message from another e-mail address ISP. The test message still came
in to the "Folders on MY Computer" Inbox.
 
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Corentin Cras-Méneur

Thanks for the tip, but there were no rules enabled. I tried creating
one directing all messages to my Exchange Inbox and then sent a text
message from another e-mail address ISP. The test message still came
in to the "Folders on MY Computer" Inbox.
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That's really weird then. I've seen that fairly often when the database
has just been rebuilt but never in other circunstances.
What happens when the mesages are moved? Do you have a copy in the
Exchange trash folder??
It's really weird that you don't have a rule doing that from Mail
(exchange).

Corentin
 
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steve.bell

Corentin said:
What happens when the mesages are moved? Do you have a copy in the
Exchange trash folder??
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If I right click on the email and drag down to "Move...", I can select
the destination folder (i.e., Exchange Account Inbox) and move it
there. But if I try to drag the email to the folder via the folder
list, it only copies the email.

Here's another wierd anomalie -- When I use OWA, all activity
(including sent items) is sitting in the "Folders in MY Computer" Inbox
the next morning when I come in and start Entourage.

I've also noticed that when I get an incoming email alert, I cannot
open or delete the email from the alert pop-up.
 
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Wickland, Tim

Steve:

Are the messages simply being copied to your local Inbox, or are they also
being deleted from the Exchange server?
 
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steve.bell

Hi Tim,

The messages are copied from the server onto my hard drive, and the two
synchronize periodically. The files are not deleted from the server
until I delete them from my Deleted Items folder.
 
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steve.bell

A week has passed and this thread has gone cold. The enigma still
exists so I'm trying to renew interest. I need to figure out how to
get incoming e-mails from the Exchange server to go to my Exchange
Account Inbox instead of the "Folders on My Computer" Inbox. Anyone
have any ideas? I have tried all of the suggestions mentioned above in
the thread. Thanks.
 
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