IMAP & Personalities

Is it possible to have multiple From personalities in a single OE identity?
(Each user will be using OE after logging into the system; hence, settings
with regard to a specific user should be stored in that user's profile?) If
so, how does one change the From information when composing and where does
one create the personalities?

Can one have multiple email accounts in OE - mixing both POP and IMAP
within a single user identity?

Can IMAP messages marked for deletion be undeleted?

Thanks.

"MikeV06" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:vy85woa3c9zx.dlg@mycomputer06.invalid.com...
> Is it possible to have multiple From personalities in a single OE
> identity?
> (Each user will be using OE after logging into the system; hence, settings
> with regard to a specific user should be stored in that user's profile?)
> If
> so, how does one change the From information when composing and where does
> one create the personalities?

Define personalities. It's not a term that comes to mind with Outlook
Express. Are you confusing "User Accounts" with it?


> Can one have multiple email accounts in OE - mixing both POP and IMAP
> within a single user identity?


Yes, a single user can have multiple mail accounts, mixing POP, IMAP and
HTTP as needed.


> Can IMAP messages marked for deletion be undeleted?
>

Once an IMAP message is purged, it's gone. Check under
Tools/Options/Maintenance for options about purging IMAP messages.
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.
Thanks.

On 2 Jan 2006 14:53:02 -0600, MikeV06 wrote:

> Is it possible to have multiple From personalities in a single OE identity?
> (Each user will be using OE after logging into the system; hence, settings
> with regard to a specific user should be stored in that user's profile?) If
> so, how does one change the From information when composing and where does
> one create the personalities?
>
> Can one have multiple email accounts in OE - mixing both POP and IMAP
> within a single user identity?
>
> Can IMAP messages marked for deletion be undeleted?
>
> Thanks.

The first question; messy. You can have multiple email accounts in a single
Identity. Each email account would be configured with its own email address
in the "From:" field. But all incoming email, if it is from POP3 accounts,
goes to the on Inbox.

With multiple Profiles, you can get some unexpected problems by letting
users share a common MSOE Identity; such as User A deleting User B's email
before User B gets to see it.

I have multiple, mixed POP3 and IMAP accounts in a single Identity.
Multiple POP3 accounts all go to the Inbox under Local Folders. Each IMAP
account has its own folder tree.

IMAP messages are stored on the server, not locally. The folder tree in the
local client is a mirror of the server folder tree. If a message is marked
for deletion, but unmarked before the deletion is performed, the message
will not be deleted. OTOH, once an IMAP message has been deleted from the
IMAP server, there is no way to retrieve that message from the local
client.

That can be problematic, in the case of somebody trying to download a
message. If the user does not move a message from the IMAP folder tree to a
local folder, deleting the message from the IMAP server also deletes it
from the local folder tree; remember, the local IMAP folders are a mirror
of what is on the server.

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum

On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 14:09:14 -0800, Jim Pickering wrote:

> "MikeV06" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
> news:vy85woa3c9zx.dlg@mycomputer06.invalid.com...
>> Is it possible to have multiple From personalities in a single OE
>> identity?
>> (Each user will be using OE after logging into the system; hence, settings
>> with regard to a specific user should be stored in that user's profile?)
>> If
>> so, how does one change the From information when composing and where does
>> one create the personalities?
>
> Define personalities. It's not a term that comes to mind with Outlook
> Express. Are you confusing "User Accounts" with it?

I use unique mail addresses for each of my correspondents. Hence, I receive
mail on amazon.mv@foo.com, kids.mv@foo.com, xm.order@foo.com, and so on
where foo.com is my domain. Each of those addresses is a defined account
within foo.com, but they all end up in the same IMAP server store.
Essentially I have unlimited accounts within my domain. When I send a
message to amazon I want the From: to be amazon.mv@foo.com, and likewise,
when I send a message to xm I want the From: to be xm.order@foo.com. Hence,
whenever composing a message I need a From: field that lets me select from
predefined FROM addresses (which some clients call personalities). Such a
feature is available with Outlook.

>
>> Can one have multiple email accounts in OE - mixing both POP and IMAP
>> within a single user identity?
>
> Yes, a single user can have multiple mail accounts, mixing POP, IMAP and
> HTTP as needed.
>
>> Can IMAP messages marked for deletion be undeleted?
>>
>
> Once an IMAP message is purged, it's gone. Check under
> Tools/Options/Maintenance for options about purging IMAP messages.

The other poster said that OE had a mark undelete function which would
unmark the deletion flag (if used before compact or purge).

On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 14:03:07 -0800, N. Miller wrote:

> On 2 Jan 2006 14:53:02 -0600, MikeV06 wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to have multiple From personalities in a single OE identity?
>> (Each user will be using OE after logging into the system; hence, settings
>> with regard to a specific user should be stored in that user's profile?) If
>> so, how does one change the From information when composing and where does
>> one create the personalities?
>>
>> Can one have multiple email accounts in OE - mixing both POP and IMAP
>> within a single user identity?
>>
>> Can IMAP messages marked for deletion be undeleted?
>>
>> Thanks.
>
> The first question; messy. You can have multiple email accounts in a single
> Identity. Each email account would be configured with its own email address
> in the "From:" field. But all incoming email, if it is from POP3 accounts,
> goes to the on Inbox.

What if I have unlimited accounts within the same IMAP account (such as is
available at Tuffmail)? Can I define multiple FROM fields so that my FROM
address shows the appropriate from address. I.e., does OE offer the ability
to have unlimited FROM fields (predefined or configurable at compose time)
within the same IMAP account? OL does offer such a feature.

> With multiple Profiles, you can get some unexpected problems by letting
> users share a common MSOE Identity; such as User A deleting User B's email
> before User B gets to see it.

OK.

> I have multiple, mixed POP3 and IMAP accounts in a single Identity.
> Multiple POP3 accounts all go to the Inbox under Local Folders. Each IMAP
> account has its own folder tree.

That is what I would expect. Great.

> IMAP messages are stored on the server, not locally. The folder tree in the
> local client is a mirror of the server folder tree. If a message is marked
> for deletion, but unmarked before the deletion is performed, the message
> will not be deleted. OTOH, once an IMAP message has been deleted from the
> IMAP server, there is no way to retrieve that message from the local
> client.

Great. Just wanted to make sure OE had an unmark delete feature before
purge/compact. Many clients do not.

> That can be problematic, in the case of somebody trying to download a
> message. If the user does not move a message from the IMAP folder tree to a
> local folder, deleting the message from the IMAP server also deletes it
> from the local folder tree; remember, the local IMAP folders are a mirror
> of what is on the server.

Right, unless, of course, one uses local IMAP stores which negates the
value of IMAP in the first place.

Thank you for you response.

On 3 Jan 2006 08:43:02 -0600, MikeV06 wrote:

> On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 14:03:07 -0800, N. Miller wrote:

>> On 2 Jan 2006 14:53:02 -0600, MikeV06 wrote:

>>> Is it possible to have multiple From personalities in a single OE identity?
>>> (Each user will be using OE after logging into the system; hence, settings
>>> with regard to a specific user should be stored in that user's profile?) If
>>> so, how does one change the From information when composing and where does
>>> one create the personalities?
>>>
>>> Can one have multiple email accounts in OE - mixing both POP and IMAP
>>> within a single user identity?
>>>
>>> Can IMAP messages marked for deletion be undeleted?
>>>
>>> Thanks.

>> The first question; messy. You can have multiple email accounts in a single
>> Identity. Each email account would be configured with its own email address
>> in the "From:" field. But all incoming email, if it is from POP3 accounts,
>> goes to the on Inbox.

> What if I have unlimited accounts within the same IMAP account (such as is
> available at Tuffmail)? Can I define multiple FROM fields so that my FROM
> address shows the appropriate from address. I.e., does OE offer the ability
> to have unlimited FROM fields (predefined or configurable at compose time)
> within the same IMAP account? OL does offer such a feature.

AFAIK, you would have to create a separate account for each "From:" email
address. I have not tested this, on an IMAP account, with MS Outlook
Express. I am looking at one of my identities which has two IMAP accounts,
aim.com, and aosake.net. Each has its own folder tree. MSOE gives me a drop
down menu to select a "From:" email address, and I have more than the two
IMAP email addresses (there being a couple of POP3 accounts in the mix);
but I can't see how to create additional "From:" email addresses within a
given IMAP account. I don't know, but that you would wind up with a
different folder tree for each IMAP account. I suspect, though, that you
might run into some oddities with more than one MSOE IMAP tree pointing to
the same IMAP account; assuming that MSOE would actually allow multiple
copies of a single IMAP account in a single identity.

MS Outlook Express is a free mail client, offered with MS Internet
Explorer. Both are older than Methuselah, and have been showing it for a
couple of years. For what you are trying to accomplish, perhaps a different
mail client is in order.

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum