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Outlook 2007 keeps setting up email as imap acct in separate folders
i'm pulling my hair out on this one - I'm running windows 7 64 bit, and i had to do a complete re-install of win 7 and everything else.
I've had to re-install microsoft office outlook 2007 before, on this very computer and have not had this issue, plus i still have it installed on a laptop and copying the settings from the laptop installation do not work.
The problem - when i enter the gmail email address, it automatically finds the server and sets the account up as a pop3 acct. When i insert the comcast email addresses it sets them up as imap accounts and sets up separate folders for them, so to check my inboxes i have to scroll all the way down the navigation pane. On my laptop outlook seven set the comcast accts up as mail.comcast.net accts and incoming emails just pop into the one inbox where my pop3 emails show up.
i've googled the bejesus out of this, and none of the "change" the folder instructions work - there is no "change folder" button where all the instructions show it residing, in the bottom box on the "data" page of account settings. When i try to use the "change" selection at the top of the box listing the email accts, i cannot change the folder address for the imap accts.
When i try to set the accounts up manually as "mail.comcast.net" accounts, they will connect or log on to the server but not succeed in sending a test message.
I'm not a software engineer but neither am i a complete fred flintstone of email accounts, but i haven't been this frustrated since windows 95 when i finally brought a sledge hammer into the room and threatened to introduce the computer to "Mr Sledge" intimately - surprisingly, that threat worked.
I have gone thru the myriad settings in outlook 7 until i'm blue in the face, and cannot find anything to change or why it would choose to set up accounts as imap accounts when on the laptop and on this computer previously, it had set them up as "mail.comcast.net" accounts.
any suggestions