I do have Microsoft Entourage X and I do have 2 POP email accounts and one
Hotmail account but only one POP email account and hotmail account are
physically showing in the navigation view window at left hand side of
Microsoft Entourage X. What should I do to show my another POP email account?
(I¹m trying to make them visible). Please help I¹m a new Mac/Entourage user.
Note: When I click "Send and receive" tab all the emails from the two POP
email accounts goes to my primary email address and what I'm trying to do is
separate them so each email goes where it belongs. Thank You very much for
your help!
POP accounts do not display as separate "accounts" in the Folder pane like
IMAP or Hotmail accounts do. The way POP accounts work is that you download
all messages form the server to local folders "On my Computer" - the top
sector of that Folder List. By default, all messages end up in that local
Inbox in "On My Computer". But you can make mail rules to send them to other
folders. If you wish, you could make folders named for your two POP
accounts, "POP 1" and "POP 2" or whatever you want to call them. Inside "POP
1" you could make a "POP 1 Inbox" and "POP 1 Sent Items" subfolders. Inside
"POP 2" you could make a "POP 2 Inbox" and "POP 2 Sent Items" subfolders. I
Tools/Rules/Mail (POP), you could make two Mail Rules (POP), one to Move all
messages whose account is POP 1 to the "POP 1 Inbox" subfolder, and the
other to Move all messages whose account is POP 2 to the "POP 2 Inbox"
subfolder. Then in Rules/Outgoing, you could make two Outgoing rules: one
to Move all sent messages whose account is POP 1 to the "POP 1 Sent Items"
subfolder, and the other to Move all messages whose account is POP 2 to the
"POP 2 Sent Items" subfolder. That will mimic the "separate accounts" setup
you seem to like.
The only reason why one of your POP accounts would be in the Folder List -
if it's not actually an IMAP or Hotmail account, that is - would be because
you set set it up in Tools/Accounts/that account/Options to "Allow Online
Access" and also keep all messages on the server. That's sort of a "poor
man's IMAP": it lets you go to the server (that account icon in the Folder
List) and read the messages there. It's not actually a very good way to use
a POP account because 1) normally ISPs don't give you a very large server
allocation so you'll run out of mailbox space soon and 2) you can't organize
into subfolders, etc. It's OK to use this for special purposes, and OK to
leave messages on the server if you have more than one computer to download
to, but sooner or later you're going to have to remove those messages from
the server.
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Paul Berkowitz
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