Email Accounts

[George]

My family has three email accounts. I use Outlook, my
wife and daughter use outlook express. Express allows
multiple users, but they have to "switch identities"
inside express to view their own personal account. I'm
hoping XP fixes that. Can I set up a user profile for
both, then set up each of their outlook express accounts
inside their own profile? My goal is to eliminate
the "switch identity" hassle. If my wife can log into her
xp profile, read her email, then my daughter logs onto
her xp profile, will she see her outlook express account
and not my wife's??????

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi George,

No, it doesn't work that way. The identities are a function of the program,
not the Operating System. They will still need to log in to their accounts.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

 

[Ron Sommer]

Rick,
I don't understand your answer.

George,
Each XP user will have a separate OE Main Identity and message store.
You will not need to use Identities with XP users.
Most people are trying to share a single address with several XP users.
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_oe.htm#xp_share_address

 

[PA Bear]

In addition to Ron's comments, see below.

If your email addresses are all "aliases" for one mailbox, you'll still need
Message Rules when using separate Identities or Profiles/Logons.

Most families (an intentionally all-encompassing term) will have one Mail
Account with their one ISP subscription ($$/month for all). Most ISPs
provide you with multiple Addresses for the Mail Account (e.g., (e-mail address removed),
(e-mail address removed), etc.) but all of them "point" to the one mailbox. As such,
each Identity will need to use Message Rules so that only mail addressed to
them is downloaded into their Inbox.

The following refers to two addresses, but you should be able to follow it
and amend for three.

(e-mail address removed) and (e-mail address removed) are aliases for one Mail Account (mailbox). In
the Identity associated with (e-mail address removed), create a Message Rule stating,
"Where To or CC contains (e-mail address removed), Do not download it from the server and
Stop processing more rules" (the last phrase is important) and place this
rule at the very top of the list.

Then create a similar rule for the Identity associated with (e-mail address removed)
directing any messages addressed to (e-mail address removed) not to be downloaded from the
server.

Also see MVP Tom Koch's fine pages on using Rules:

Tips - Message Rules
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/tips/rules.htm

Why - Message Rules
http://www.tomsterdam.com/insideoe/faqs/why.htm#rules
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HTH...Please post back to this thread

~Robear Dyer (aka PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE)
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com