How to switch between two email accounts

[Mark Hammer]

I'm wanting to have two email accounts, one for home and one for work. I've
searched Outlook help for info on how to switch back and forth between the
accounts, with the emails stored in separate folders for the two accounts.

Seems simple, but it's not clear to me from what I read that it's even
possible.

I see that I can set up separate send/receive groups for each of the two
accounts, but I don't see where this allows me to direct incoming email
messages for "home" into one directory, while sending "work" email to
another.

Do I need to create two separate Outlook profiles to accomplish this?

TIA,

Mark Hammer
Lake Oswego, Oregon

 

[Stefan Meyer]

Am 21.12.2004 22:42 Uhr schrieb "Mark Hammer" unter

I'm wanting to have two email accounts, one for home and one for work. I've
searched Outlook help for info on how to switch back and forth between the
accounts, with the emails stored in separate folders for the two accounts.

Seems simple, but it's not clear to me from what I read that it's even
possible.

I see that I can set up separate send/receive groups for each of the two
accounts, but I don't see where this allows me to direct incoming email
messages for "home" into one directory, while sending "work" email to
another.

Do I need to create two separate Outlook profiles to accomplish this?

TIA,

Mark Hammer
Lake Oswego, Oregon

You can create different folders for each account. Then you can define rules
that moves your mails into the right folder. example:
Rule 1 moves all email that sent to the address (e-mail address removed) to the folder
"Home"
Rule 2 moves all email that sent to address (e-mail address removed) into the folder
"work"

If you want you can create two other rules that moves /copy all mails into
two separate outbox folders after sending them via your two mail accounts.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I'm wanting to have two email accounts, one for home and one for
work. I've searched Outlook help for info on how to switch back and
forth between the accounts, with the emails stored in separate
folders for the two accounts.

While separate mail profiles can accomplish what you want most closely, you
can approximate it with a single mail profile and two accounts, using rules
to move messages to specific folders based upon the receiving account.

 

[Mark Hammer]

Thanks, Stephan and Brian,

One more related question:

So you have two accounts, home and work, and each has its own setting for
Return Address. When I send a message re work or return a message coming in
to work, I'd like my return address to be the work one, and likewise for
home. This seems to mean that I must change which account is the default
one?? Is there a slick way to switch between mail accounts?

Or is my objective only feasible by setting up separate outlook profiles?

--Mark Hammer

 

[Brian Tillman]

So you have two accounts, home and work, and each has its own setting
for Return Address. When I send a message re work or return a
message coming in to work, I'd like my return address to be the work
one, and likewise for home. This seems to mean that I must change
which account is the default one?? Is there a slick way to switch
between mail accounts?

What version of Outlook? You haven't mentioned that yet and it makes a
difference.

 

[Mark Hammer]

Sorry. Outlook 2003, Win XP Home.

--Mark Hammer

 

[Brian Tillman]

Sorry. Outlook 2003, Win XP Home.

With two accounts, you should have an Accounts button just to the right of
Send in the Compose windows Toolbar. Clicking that will allow you to choose
with which account the message will be sent.

 

[Mark Hammer]

Thanks loads, Brian.

Merry Christmas.

--Mark Hammer