Good day Ladies and Gents,
In Outlook for desktop, we have a combination of non-Exchange pop3 e-mail accounts, an outlook.com (live mail) account and a Gmail account set up. As you know, each one of these accounts creates their own data files when created. As you also know, when I receive a meeting invite on my outlook.com account, it would sync with my outlook.com calendar and in turn would sync with my phone/tablet/other devices connected to outlook.com. However, when I receive a meeting invite on me@meagain.co.za, that meeting would end up in my @meagain.co.za calendar. That calendar will not sync as it is a locally hosted calendar stored on the device which the meeting was received (In this case, the PC).
All that needs to happen is that locally hosted, non-Exchange, non-ActiveSync, normal pop3 email accounts has to sync/copy/duplicate within Outlook to outlook.com's calendar (Which is also set up within Outlook desktop app). This would in turn sync to all other devices via outlook.com.
To try and clarify it a bit further: I have gone as far as to setup a rule in Outlook desktop app, which, when I receive a meeting invite, no matter from who or to which email account, Outlook desktop app should make a copy of that meeting and place it in my Outlook.com calendar. This works, but still requires me to go to my outlook.com calendar and again accept the meeting for a second time. This is a half-baked solution for a problem which there HAS TO BE AN EASY ANSWER.
In short: How do one sync contacts, calendars and mail from non-Exchange, non-ActiveSync, normal pop3 email accounts with outlook.com/MSFT services to then have the complete experience across all devices (phone, tablet and alternative PC’s) ?
Any answer would be greatly appreciated. I've been struggling for two weeks to get an answer from MSFT South Africa, I find this to be unacceptable from a prestige company such as MSFT.
Thank you in advance,
Adolf Kleinhans