How to Configure Personal Folders in Outlook

Introduction

Personal folders allow you to save your E-mail to a folder on your local computer. This will allow you to store email on your personal computer and open up space in your quota on the email server.

Configure Personal Folders

  1. Click on File->New->Outlook Data File
  2. Click on "Office Outlook Personal Folders File(.pst)"
  3. Click OK
  4. In the "File name:" box type in your UID. If your email address is tfaculty@ucmerced.edu your UID would be tfaculty.
  5. Click OK
  6. Click OK

In your folder list you will now have a new set of folders under "Personal Folders". You can create new folders inside there to move mail to.


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