I have several email accounts. How can I show each email account's inbox
separately in the left column in Entourage (as is shown in Apple Mail)? I do
not want to see all messages received by all accounts mixed together.
Use Rules to move your messages to a folder you create. Personally, I would
never want all mail from any address moved to an Inbox folder. I like to use
Rules or the Mailing List Manager to move mail to a folder that indicates
it's use. For example, list mail from the Entourage talk list. The Mailing
List Manager moves all list mail to my Entourage Talk folder.
There are 3 different kind of rules in Entourage:
Mailing List Manager (MLM)
Junk Mail Filter
Rules (custom rules you create)
They run in the order listed above. The custom rules also run in the order
they are listed. (top runs first)
Use the MLM for all lists. Use rules for the remainder. Try to use
categories instead of individual addresses when possible. When a new address
is added to a contact in the Address Book then it will automatically be
acted on by the rule if you use categories in your rules. See example:
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http://www.entourage.mvps.org/rules/example/rule002.html>
1) POP Rules act on a message ONLY when it first arrives in the Inbox (On My
Computer), NOT when it arrives in any other folder. Once it's moved to
another folder it won't be seen by rules.
2) IMAP Rules are meant to act on a message ONLY when it first arrives in
the IMAP INBOX, not when moved to another IMAP folder.
3) Exchange Rules act on a message ONLY when it first arrives in the
Exchange Inbox.
See "Using Rules with Entourage" for help and examples:
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http://entourage.mvps.org/rules/index.html>
I have a basic using rules lesson that I can post if you are interested.
