Issue with Multiple accounts

[Guest]

Hi ,
I have 8 email accounts which i have added to my windows mail .
Now how do i access my mails for these accounts.
Will there be 8 different inboxes for my 8 email accounts.I dont see them.
Kindly help asap as i have been working on this for quite some time.
OS ver: Win Vista Home premium 32 bit ed.

 

[Steve Cochran]

No. Each Windows User will have only one Inbox. Check each account under
Tools | Accounts | Mail | Properties that you have it set to synchronize
when checking mail.

steve

 

[Guest]

Will i be able to access all my mails for all my user accounts through this 1
inbox???

 

[Steve Cochran]

Every message that comes to you via the accounts you set up under Tools |
Accounts | Mail goes to your inbox.

steve

 

[Mark]

What if I want my wife to have some privacy in her email exchanges and visa
versa?

 

[Frankster]

Set up a different Vista logon for you and your wife. You each use your own
logon (and mail account(s)).

-Frank

 

[Guest]

Why was the identity feature taken off Windows mail ??????

 

[Frankster]

I'm not privy to "why?", but, here's an excerpt from Vista on-line help
(type in "Identity").

-------------------
What happened to e‑mail identities?

The ability to create e‑mail identities in Outlook Express, which allowed
multiple people sharing the same computer to keep their e‑mail separate, has
been removed in Windows Mail. Instead, Windows Mail enables you to create
separate Windows user accounts for each person who wants to use e‑mail on a
single computer. If you're upgrading to Windows Mail from an Outlook Express
account that contains multiple e‑mail identities, Windows Mail will
automatically launch a wizard to guide you through the process of importing
your previous e‑mail identities into your current user account. This wizard
will launch each time Windows Mail is started until all identities have been
imported or deleted.

 

[Guest]

You have got to be kidding me -- to check my e-mail on different accounts, I
have to switch my entire windows account (e.g. switch user and get out of
Vista)? This is totally insane? I have 6 accounts of my own that I have to
check regularly (like every 30 - 60 minutes) -- I will be spending all my
time switching users. I can't believe that is how it works. That just does
not make sense. Is it possible to install Outlook Express on Vista (at least
Express has some value in this case).

 

[Steve Cochran]

Except its already been reported it only imported one Identity and the
others weren't.

steve

 

[Steve Cochran]

Because people such as yourself thought those were secure when they were
not. In fact your wife could easily been reading your mail for years and
you wouldn't have known it. Its very easy to do. See
www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx#imp1

And its a lot easier for them to program it if they don't have to worry
about different identities.

steve

 

[Steve Cochran]

You can add multiple email accounts to a single Identity. You always could.
All the removal of the Identities feature does is limit an account to one
Identity. Did you really switch Identities in OE to check each of your
email accounts?

steve

 

[Frankster]

No, no.... you can have have all the email accounts you like coming into
your own single inbox. I have over 20. I'm just saying that you can only
read the email accounts configured under your own logon. If you wife has a
separate Windows logon, and she creates her account under her own logon, you
cannot read it while in your login. And vice versa. See? That's how you can
have pricacy of email.

-Frank

 

[Guest]

Yes, I switched identities for each account, because I need to keep the InBox
and other files separate for each Identity. It is important that I don't
share an InBox between identities. And when I send e-mails out to people
they need to come from different identities.

 

[Guest]

If you need multiple identities then switch to Mozilla Thunderbird and give
Microsoft the finger.

 

[Frankster]

No functionality is lost there. Windows Mail will allow you to have multiple
email accounts and to choose to send "from" any email account you like. No
problem. You have been using "Identities" so long that you probably think
that was the only way to do what you want. It wasn't. Windows mail will do
everything you require, in your paragraph below.

If you prefer different inboxes for your accounts, just make an inbox for
each and rules to automatically sort them for you... MaryInbox, JohnInbox,
HowardInbox, etc. This is really routine in good mail clients. You don't
need "Identities" to do it.

-Frank

 

[Guest]

Thanks Steve, this pretty much explains it ,
Yeah i have worked with the mail and it makes sense now.

 

[Guest]

I have a problem with getting my wife's logon off the computer, it still
comes up when I start up the computer, my wife has her own computer now and
I would like to have just my logon in it or none at all that would be my
first choice, can any one help me.
I want the computer to just go straight to the desktop with out having to
logon...can that be done?

 

[gr8r2b]

No functionality is lost there. Windows Mail will allow you to have multiple
email accounts and to choose to send "from" any email account you like. No
problem. You have been using "Identities" so long that you probably think
that was the only way to do what you want. It wasn't. Windows mail will do
everything you require, in your paragraph below.

If you prefer different inboxes for your accounts, just make an inbox for
each and rules to automatically sort them for you... MaryInbox, JohnInbox,
HowardInbox, etc. This is really routine in good mail clients. You don't
need "Identities" to do it.

-Frank







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Wow that is gr8 news, because I have always used the identities, and
switched identities to each, this will make it much easier, but I have
another problem...

I just bought a new computer with Vista on it and I want the emails in
my saved and inbox folders from my old outlook express identities.
How do I import those 2 folders from each Outlook Express account, on
my Windows XP computer to the respected folders in Windows Mail on my
Vista computer?

 

[gr8r2b]

Wow that is gr8 news, because I have always used the identities, and
switched identities to each, this will make it much easier, but I have
another problem...

I just bought a new computer with Vista on it and I want the emails in
my saved and inbox folders from my old outlook express identities.
How do I import those 2 folders from each Outlook Express account, on
my Windows XP computer to the respected folders in Windows Mail on my
Vista computer?- Hide quoted text -

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Hey, found my answer elsewhere. I just had to make the the dbx files
not read only (clear the read only box under properties of the folder
the files are in) then I was able to import using Windows mail import
feature.