How to set Outlook to deliver all IMAP email to Outlook.PST and In Box

Okay, so when I set up the IMAP accounts, how do I get the folders (that I save emails in) to sync between devices? Should I just set them up in Gmail, my mail provider, and Gmail will download them to Outlook and iPhone, or do I have to set up the corresponding folders in Outlook and iPhone?

Thanks again!

Hello OneRcknMan,

From what I know about IMAP now, that I did not know then, I do not think that there is even a way to do this. (Have multiple IMAP accounts deliver to the same Outlook Inbox.) I cannot explain it very well from a technical standpoint, but I just think that it would mess up everything on your other devices (the whole reason for having it set up as IMAP) if you tried to do it this way in Outlook.

If you are not using any other email client that Outlook, than I would just use the POP service to get my mail, and make sure to set the accounts up MANUALLY, to SPECIFY that ALL of the emails go to the ONE Outlook Inbox.

In my case, I was just kind of sick of working with Outlook, because I had worked with it to death trying to get it to manage my tasks, and not use the Outlook To Do list -- which is impossible, I later learned, but that is another story. I also needed the ability to work with my email on multiple devices, which I hope in the near future to be an iPad 2 for the majority of the time. So, for now, I use the Gmail Webmail client, which I am learning to like. [Using Gmail's Webmail client in Google Chrome makes a big difference in terms of ease of use.]

As for tasks management, I am still searching for the ideal solution. Currently, I am really liking the custom icons, checkboxes, fonts and colors that I can place on lines of text in OneNote, to make them appear as a task list. The only thing is that it does not autosort, so I must make my task list, then go to Word and prioritize and then sort the paragraphs, and then copy them back to OneNote to then add the icons, etc. I know it sounds laborious, but it is the best solution that I have found.

Lately, especially, I have discovered the OneNote 'checklist' 'toolbox', which offers an array of options for making these custom check lists. Unfortunately, it does not allow one to move an event forward or strike thru an incomplete event that I did not do, but I don't want to delete either. So, in the future, I may just build my own task list toolbox, which would have this functionality and more, including drag and drop, as well as the Franklin Planner Compass method of planning your life.

Well, I hope that I have more than answered your question, but should you require any additional information, or wish to provide the VC for my task list toolbox endeavor, please do contact me.

Take good care,

~Antonio