Issue with Multiple accounts

[Guest]

Change the Control Panel back to classic view and go to User Accounts and
delete your wife's account. Windows will boot right to the desktop then.

 

[Guest]

I had done that Cathe, and just it to be sure, I'm the only one their.

 

[Guest]

I got it Thanks very much.

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gene

Change the Control Panel back to classic view and go to User Accounts and
delete your wife's account. Windows will boot right to the desktop then.

 

[Buckwheat]

My experience is the same. I have 3 email accounts and had to manually
create an inbox for each one, then route via rules. However, I wonder if
this Microsoft's intent. If you look at the Vista description, each email
account should have been set up with its own inbox. See
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/ab1e34d7-baf9-4e1e-8f47-02bbda049af41033.mspx

Bruce

 

[Sinner]

My experience is the same. I have 3 email accounts and had to manually
create an inbox for each one, then route via rules. However, I wonder if
this Microsoft's intent. If you look at the Vista description, each email
account should have been set up with its own inbox. See
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/ab1e34d7-baf9-4e1e-8f47-02bbda049af41033.mspx

This link may have a better explanation:

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/98c039d9-78d1-41c7-8ece-b505780d68701033.mspx

 

[Buckwheat]

I'm not talking about different identities. I'm talking about one logon with
multiple email accounts. Clearly, the MS Help suggests that each account
should have its own inbox (which in our experience, it does not). My point
is simply that this may be the way Mail is SUPPOSED to work. Instead, we are
being forced to create the inboxes manually.

 

[Steve Cochran]

I think that is poorly worded and also you misread it. It says nowhere that
each account has its own inbox. What it says is that each account has its
own "folder", but what it really means I think is that each account is now
specified by its own file. See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...outlookexpress/oe/overviews/account_entry.asp

steve

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

?
The article you quoted says *nothing* about different Inboxes.
Since creating a custom inbox is super easy, I don't see what
the problem is.

 

[Guest]

It's true you can pick any sender's email address while composing new email.
But I used to have two identities one for personal emails and one for
business. Whenever I answered my emails I never had to worry about "From"
field

But now I have to be careful every time I compose a new email because it
always picks default sender address.

Thanks
Kevin

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Eventually it will become a habit to check the displayed From address
when composing a new message. In my case, 95% of my outgoing
emails are replies, so for those the correct From address is
automatically picked.

Gary VanderMolen

 

[Steve Cochran]

I just wrote my WMIDs program to give a user different Identities, but I
haven't figure out the contacts part yet. I'm looking into it. Especially
given all the problems they are causing.

steve

 

[Guest]

I switched to Thunderbird back 4 years ago because Mirosoft didn't support
different Inboxes for different accounts. Now that I installed Vista, I
thought I try it again to see if this feature was added. How stupid are the
folks in the Outlook team that they haven't realized how important this
feature is for many users! I'm switching back to Thunderbird.

Making rules to redirect mails to different folders is not only silly, but
it doesn't work either. If someone for example sends email to an undisclosed
contact group that includes me, then Outlook cannot figure out which email
address it was meant for since the reciepents are all hidden.

Dr. Saeid Nourian
University of Ottawa

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Comments inline:

I switched to Thunderbird back 4 years ago because Mirosoft didn't support
different Inboxes for different accounts. Now that I installed Vista, I
thought I try it again to see if this feature was added. How stupid are the
folks in the Outlook team that they haven't realized how important this
feature is for many users! I'm switching back to Thunderbird.

To each his own. I tried Thunderbird once and was horrified that each
mail account got its own Inbox, Sent, Drafts, etc. When you have a dozen
email addresses (like I do), that gets messy.
I like the unified Inbox. A good percentage of my incoming mail doesn't
fit any of my predefined rules, so it stays in the one Inbox. I don't have to
go looking through 12 Inboxes for stray mail.

Making rules to redirect mails to different folders is not only silly, but
it doesn't work either. If someone for example sends email to an undisclosed
contact group that includes me, then Outlook cannot figure out which email
address it was meant for since the reciepents are all hidden.

The filter rules work great for me. OE/WinMail is able to filter on the account
through which an email was received, which achieves the same functionality
as Thunderbird's "one inbox per account".

My filter rules redirect mail into functionally named folders such as Kids,
Vacation, Relatives, Spouse, Technical, Financial, etc. I find that much
more useful than having incoming mail sorted into meaningless inboxes.

Gary VanderMolen