1) Wow, just a VERY similar question, but no that is not me. I've only been at this for about 3 weeks.
2) Yes, all but the gmail accounts were POP/SMTP on the old PC/Outlook setup. All are IMAP/SMTP on this new, Outlook 2021 install.
3) I wondered about that, and thought that is how I should start on initial install, but the new install forced me to create a profile, and forced me to setup an initial email address. There was no way to bypass it that I could find. So then I assumed I would have to setup each of my other email accounts, which I did.
I'll be happy to open it and hope it adds the top level folder as you suggest, but I am still after this from my original question-
"5 different email addresses listed in the navigation pane, all with their own inbox and folder structure." how do I get everything consolidated? (In folder view, don't really care about the behind the scenes file/database structure, *.ost, *.pst).
thanks