I have 2 main and 1 'secondary' Hotmail accounts and 2 GMail accounts, all for businesses I am involved with and 1 BTInternet account (my main personal account, a clone of Yahoo?). I currently use Outlook 2010 but am feeling more and more frustrated with it's limitations in (not) handling multiple accounts very well! I really just want an email and contacts handler, anything else is used on an as required basis (I currently have a contacts folder/list in each account which is also a pain in the ... !). What would people recommend?
Ideally I would want a single inbox view to review the mail as it comes in and then archive as required in a folder structure under the email account (I know I can do this in an Outlook with search and the folders pane but I can't see a way to save a search so I have to request the search and set up the parameters each time I want to see new mail). Ideally if I replied to mail direct from the combined inbox the reply from address would default to the account the incoming email was sent to.
I would also want a combined contacts list but can't see a way of doing this in Outlook.
It seems to me a simple set of requirements for someone with 2, 3 or more email accounts.
Ideally I would want a single inbox view to review the mail as it comes in and then archive as required in a folder structure under the email account (I know I can do this in an Outlook with search and the folders pane but I can't see a way to save a search so I have to request the search and set up the parameters each time I want to see new mail). Ideally if I replied to mail direct from the combined inbox the reply from address would default to the account the incoming email was sent to.
I would also want a combined contacts list but can't see a way of doing this in Outlook.
It seems to me a simple set of requirements for someone with 2, 3 or more email accounts.