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In Outlook 2007 Save Copy of Sent POP Account Messages to Gmail IMAP Sent Folder

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In tune with consolidating all of my email accounts to Gmail I wanted to make sure that any email sent from my machine showed up in my Gmail “Sent Items” folder. I still have multiple POP accounts which can actually be configured on Gmail now however the messages show as “account@gmail.com sent on behalf of account@domain.com” in the FROM field on most email clients. To me this looks horrible and I don’t want other people seeing my personal Gmail account. So instead I still have multiple accounts configured locally in Outlook 2007 but I wanted to make sure that all sent mail was located in one place which would be the “Sent Items” folder of the primary Gmail account.

To accomplish the above was easier than I expected it was going to be by setting up a custom rule in Outlook 2007. All it does is check any email sent from the local machine and moves a copy into the gmail “Sent Items” folder. You can set up a similar rule by following the directions below.