Can Outlook contain multiple inboxes?

[Guest]

My wife and I have different email addresses, but everything comes into the
same Outlook inbox. Can a single Outlook program contain multiple inboxes to
accommodate the two email addresses?

 

[Brian Tillman]

My wife and I have different email addresses, but everything comes
into the same Outlook inbox. Can a single Outlook program contain
multiple inboxes to accommodate the two email addresses?

There are a couple of ways to approach this. One is for you and your wife
to have separate Windows logins. Another is for yo to have one Windows
login but separate mail files. A third is to have one Windows login, one
mail profile, but use rules to move her messages to another folder. The
first two give completely separate message stores.

That said, a good answer will depend on knowing whether or not your
mailboxes on your ISP's server are actually distinct or just aliases of each
other and what version of Outlook you're using.

 

[Gordon]

My wife and I have different email addresses, but everything comes
into the same Outlook inbox. Can a single Outlook program contain
multiple inboxes to accommodate the two email addresses?

There are several answers to your question, depending on several factors. If
your email addresses are truely different, ie they are not ALIASES of the
one master address, and as such are in the format of (e-mail address removed) then you
have several options. You can, if you are using W2K or Windows XP (which you
omitted to tell us), create a new user on your machine, which will have a
completely separate set of Outlook files, or you can create a new Outlook
Profile, depending on what version of Outlook you have (which again you
omitted to tell us). If this conditioon applies and you are using one of the
Win 9x versions, then the only option you have id to create a new Outlook
Profile

If your email addresses are ALIASES of the one master address, ie are in the
format of (e-mail address removed) then the only option you have is to set up a
rule to filter one or both addresses to a folder that you have manually
created.

HTH

 

[Guest]

Gordon,

Thank you to both you and Brian for your prompt responses. I have XP and
Outlook 2003. My ISP allows me to have multiple addresses which I recently
took advantage of. Each address is (e-mail address removed). When I view Tools -->
Email Accounts --> View/Change Existing Accounts, I only see the original
(e-mail address removed). This would lead me to believe that my new address is an
alias. But, based upon your sample format below, it may be that they are
actually separate. Wifey is against separate Windows logins.

So, if they are truely separate addresses then I would like to create a new
Outlook profile (provided my version accommondates that). If not, then I
would like to create the folder and a rule. Since there is a "Rules and
Alerts" menu item under "Tools", I may be able to figure that one out.

If I can go the way of a new profile, can you point me in the right direction?

 

[Gordon]

Gordon,

Thank you to both you and Brian for your prompt responses. I have XP
and Outlook 2003. My ISP allows me to have multiple addresses which
I recently took advantage of. Each address is (e-mail address removed).

Then you have truely seperate email addresses so you can certainly do a
second mail profile.

If I can go the way of a new profile, can you point me in the right
direction?

Go to Control Panel-Mail-Show Profiles-New and set up the new profile. You
should tell Outlook to prompt for which profile is used at startup.
Then go open Outlook with the new profile and add the new email account and
server settings.

Good luck!

 

[Guest]

Thank you, Gordon. It worked perfectly.

Then you have truely seperate email addresses so you can certainly do a
second mail profile.



Go to Control Panel-Mail-Show Profiles-New and set up the new profile. You
should tell Outlook to prompt for which profile is used at startup.
Then go open Outlook with the new profile and add the new email account and
server settings.

Good luck!

 

[Gordon]

Thank you, Gordon. It worked perfectly.

YW!

 

[Brian Tillman]

Thank you to both you and Brian for your prompt responses. I have XP
and Outlook 2003. My ISP allows me to have multiple addresses which
I recently took advantage of. Each address is (e-mail address removed).
When I view Tools --> Email Accounts --> View/Change Existing
Accounts, I only see the original (e-mail address removed). This would lead
me to believe that my new address is an alias. But, based upon your
sample format below, it may be that they are actually separate.
Wifey is against separate Windows logins.

If you're using separate Windows usernames, your PSTs are in your own folder
path, and you both see the same messages, then you're both pointing to the
same mailbox on the ISP's server. If in the POP server settings you're
specifying the same username/password, there's no way to separate your
messages except for using rules, since you're actually both using the same
ISP mailbox and Outlook has no way of separating the incoming messages
except by rules. You'll either need separate username/passwords (i.e.,
distinct mailboxes on the server side). If you're using separate ISP
usernames/passwords already and you're still seeing each other's messages,
your mail addresses must be aliases of each other, being delivered to the
same mailbox despite appearing to be separate mail addresses.

If I can go the way of a new profile, can you point me in the right
direction?

If you're using separate Windows logins, you MUST have separate profiles,
since profiles are kept in user-specific areas of the registry. Otherwise,
see
http://www.howto-outlook.com/Faq/newprofile.htm

 

[Guest]

My wife and I have different email addresses, but everything comes into the
same Outlook inbox. Can a single Outlook program contain multiple inboxes to
accommodate the two email addresses?

This seems to me to be a problem many people are experiencing. Myself I
would rather keep my business and personal emails seperate. I understand the
workarounds that have been suggested but there is one thing that bugs me.
Why would outlook not let you specify seperate datafiles for email accounts
on pop accounts when it does so for http accounts.

For instance when adding a http account (for hotmeil eg.) it sets up a
seperate data file with the inbox, draft, sent items folders etc. from your
pop account. To me then it would seem possible to specify seperate data
files for seperate pop accounts.