You can't delete it.
Outlook needs a local PST for storing everything other than the email. IMAP doesn't support contacts or calendars, so that information gets stored in a personal PST file.
You can't delete it? I'll take your word for it (and fully believe it, giving my experience with other MS products), but that sounds awfully strange to me! My coworker doesn't user a calander in Outlook. Not does he use a contacts list or any other feature, apart from the basic mail.
So the only option would be to delete Outlook and re-install it, just to get rid of that entry that is completely useless and takes up space on the screen (ok, not that much, but still...) ? How stupid!
This is another one of these occasions where I'm soooooooo glad I'm using Thunderbird! Combined with my domain on a Google Apps account, this is a golden combination. If I re-install my stuff, all I need to do is re-install Thunderbird, enter my account settings and voila: everything's back. Priceless.
By the way, this sort of simplicity was also the reason I used Eudora for that long: you could simply copy the Eudora folder to a new system, put a link to the eudora.exe in the start menu and everything would work fine. Also priceless... But of course, that was still POP3 (IMAP never worked very well with Eudora).
I would have gone through the same process you did, though I would have copied the emails, closed the old POP PST and stored it somewhere in the Documents folder so I'd have a backup. Those transfers to IMAP can be tricky and it's good to have a backup.
I agree, that's usually a good idea, but I don't know if my coworker values his mail that much. He already said it wasn't a big deal should be loose all the mail in the process, so I didn't bother to build in a safety net.
Anyway, thanks for the info!!
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