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Written by: Brian Swanson
7/29/2008 6:43 AM 

I have several email accounts, and have always liked to be overly organized with my incoming emails.  Prior to Outlook 2007, I'd create a folder under my main Inbox folder, and after setting up a new email account would create a rule to move mail coming in on a specific account to go to a specific folder.  This always worked great, but I think Microsoft actually improved things by making it a couple steps easier to accomplish the same task in Outlook 2007.

In Outlook 2007, you still need to create the folder you want your incoming mail from a specific account delivered too (you can point multiple accounts at the same folder, I choose not to), but then after setting up the account you select "Change Folder" button (if it is a POP3 email account) and select a different delivery folder. 

I think "rules" creation was probably overly complicated for the masses for this simple task, and that's why Microsoft added the functionality. Regardless, I like the new functionality.

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4 comment(s) so far...

Re: change delivery folder in Outlook 2007

Nice one, thank you. I'd been trying without success to change the delivery folder via "Send/Receive Settings > Edit > New mail will be delivered to the folder checked below", but that simply displays the setting rather than letting you change it.

By Nick on   1/6/2010 9:22 AM

Re: change delivery folder in Outlook 2007

yeAH, BUT THAT DOSnt do me any good for IMAP.
the 'CHANGE FOLDER' button is not even there.

By yo on   7/21/2010 7:42 AM

Re: change delivery folder in Outlook 2007

when you connect to an email account via IMAP, Outlook creates a set of folders for the new IMAP account, because IMAP supports a folder structure. It isn't possible to redirect a folder on an IMAP account, that I'm aware of.

By Brian Swanson on   7/21/2010 7:44 AM

Re: change delivery folder in Outlook 2007

Hey guys. I'm grateful that you posted this question because just knowing that someone else had this problem helped me to figure out a solution.

I solved this problem by setting up the account from scratch a 2nd time. (I didn't delete the older setup.) I then accessed Tools-AccountSettings-Email-"Microsoft POP3 IMAP.." and then selected "Manually configure...". I then click Next. Choose radiobutton "Internet...", then Next. In the next screen it is very important that you leave the account type as "POP3" in the Server Information section. I know that the account is really IMAP, but if you leave it as POP3 and do everything else the same, the vanished button will appear at the end of the setup. Please drop me a line and let me know if this helped.

By Steven Schwartz on   12/5/2010 9:47 AM

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