"Gerhard Fiedler" wrote in message
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I'm using Outlook 2007. I've been using it to handle my personal mail
(all POP) and use it as a PIM (all in a .pst file).

Then I needed to add access to a company Exchange server. At first, I
just accessed the Exchange server through POP, and all continued to work
as before. But this doesn't give me access to free/busy information on
other people's and resource calendars. So I added the Exchange account
(which I access through a VPN).

Here's how it is set up currently: All accounts deliver to a folder in
the local .pst file, even the Exchange account. One of my POP accounts
is the default "send from" account. My local .pst file is marked as the
default file (not the Exchange .ost file). The Exchange account uses
cached mode, and in the Remote Mail tab I have set a condition that
should prevent download of any mail. The Exchange account is not part of
any of my Send/Receive groups (disabled in all). I also still have
active the POP access to the Exchange server.

Now things really don't work anymore the way I think they should:

And they won't unless the Exchange account is the delivery location.

1- First of all, Outlook lost all my rules when adding the Exchange
account. I'm setting up all again now. But currently, when I add a rule,
it takes much longer to save it; I'm pretty sure Outlook talks to the
Exchange server. (I'm accessing it through a VPN with some 200ms
latency.) I don't know why; none of the rules has anything to do with
the Exchange server, and the Exchange mailbox is not my delivery
location. I also fear that once I remove the Exchange account, all the
rules will be gone again, and I'll have to go again through the work to
set them all up.

When an Exchange account is part of the profile, all the rules will be in
the mailbox no matter what, or so it seems for me. I don't think you get a
choice. The Rules Wizard's export/import can help you back up your rules
when you make changes so you don't lose them.

I'd like to not have the Exchange server involved when setting up rules
for my local POP mail, and have these filters persist independently of
whether an Exchange account is set up or not.

I don't think that's possible, as I said.

2- It seems it is not possible to disable the delivery of mail through
the Exchange account. The reason why I would like to do this is that it
also doesn't seem to be possible to create rules that work with these
mails; none of the rules that I've created for mails that come in
through the Exchange account work. They don't seem to have headers that
the rules engine recognizes (or displays, for that matter).

Internal messages between mailboxes on the Exchange server won't have
headers, particularly.

Additionally, in the E-mail tab of the
Account Settings it is not possible to set a delivery folder for the
Exchange account, even though it is possible for every POP account. The
Exchange account's delivery folder is "hardcoded" to the Inbox folder of
the .pst file.

Correct, as far as I can tell.

I'd really like to be able to filter on email that comes through the
Exchange account (then I could disable the POP access to the Exchange
server), or be able to disable receiving emails through the Exchange
account (then I'd just leave the POP access active and wouldn't get 2
copies of every email).

Why not let Exchange handle all the mail? It works very well for me. I
have a color rule that displays all external messages in blue so I can see
instantly which ones came from the Internet and which are internal.

These two are my main problems with this setup. Basically, I want to
receive emails that come to my Exchange account filtered into several
folders of my local .pst file, continue to have my local POP accounts
independently of the Exchange account (that is, not routed through the
Exchange Inbox), have the fact that now there is an Exchange account set
up not influence my local POP filters, and have access to the free/busy
information of other users and resources on the Exchange server.

I'd have Exchange as the delivery location, then choose separate Inbox and
Sent Items folders for each of the POP accounts or I'd use completely
separate mail profiles, with the Exchange account by itself in one and the
POP accounts in another.
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]