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Lost my mind! How to move my desktop Outlook 2016 PST folder and contents to Office 365
Darrell, I am using Office 365 Home. I suppose the confusion lies in that I want my emails on the cloud with Office, yet there is no option to import. Instead what you are describing is a desktop solution? I have Outlook 2016 installed on my pc. I know where my pst file is as I exported it from Outlook.
So, if I have my exported pst file from Outlook 2016, what do I do with it?
Thank you
Is Outlook on your desktop connected to your Outlook.com mailbox? Is the Outlook.com email address the one you intend to use for your future email communications? Our do you intend to keep using all 15 other email accounts?
I intend to use all 15 email accounts. I am guessing most people only use 1 email account in their lives, or so it appears.
Looking at o365 Home, it shows I can install 5 instances of O365, but I never saw it only supported 5 emails accounts. In fact while I am paying $9.99 per month, I now see it is $7.99 per month, and that O365 Bus Prem supports online Outlook. What a mess.
Now, I can create multiple email accounts on Outlook.com, I just cannot move my existing emails and calendars to it. Have to start from scratch.
- I'm not explaining myself very well and yes, I agree with all the choices and similar names, it is confusing.
O365 Home includes 5 *new* mailboxes.
But in your case, you want to keep your existing 15. You want to access them all from one place online. But you still want to be able to send and receive email as each individual account.
To achieve this you're going to use one of the Outlook.com email accounts that are included in your subscription.
You're going to sign into that Outlook.com account and use a feature called Sync mail. With Sync mail, you'll sign into each of your 15 existing email accounts, connecting them to your Outlook.com account. Outlook.com will then behave like Outlook on your desktop, regularly downloading a copy of new messages delivered to your 15 email accounts.
How does that sound Lee? Will that achieve what you want?This is the support article, showing you how to connect your 15 email accounts to Outlook.com. https://support.office.com/en-us/article/add-your-other-email-accounts-to-outlook-com-c5224df4-5885-4e79-91ba-523aa743f0ba
You might need to manually set up the account (server) settings for each. That's when you start using POP or IMAP incoming server settings for each of your 15 accounts.
- I'll be right with you. Just starting a fire. I'm in New Zealand and it's an early Winter morning.