Mail (Windows Vista Home Premium)

[Joe Btfsplk]

Just bought new computer preloaded with everyone's favorite O/S. For new
Mail, MS seems to have accomodated several different users each with
individual account on same PC (as was in XP) but have totally ignored case of
one single user (me) with several different Identites within Outlook Express
like say 1 Personal, 1 Home Business and 1 Church Affairs. Rather than have
to back out of Mail and log in again as 3 different people (which I am not),
I have imported all 3 old Identities to new Mail per instructions and now
divert all-in-one incoming mail mess to each of 3 separate named Inboxes with
Message Rules. This works fine, except have now a huge list of folders 3
times that of each old Identity. Bad part is importing what were 3 old
separate Identity address books which have now all merged into one fine mess,
when I really wanted them separate as before. Any solution to this? Have
heard about migrating all to Thunderbird client but why should I Have to do
this when have already paid for the new MS Vista? Am naturally very
dissapointed with this downgraded Mail client.

 

[Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM]

Just bought new computer preloaded with everyone's favorite O/S. For new
Mail, MS seems to have accomodated several different users each with
individual account on same PC (as was in XP) but have totally ignored case
of
one single user (me) with several different Identites within Outlook
Express
like say 1 Personal, 1 Home Business and 1 Church Affairs. Rather than
have
to back out of Mail and log in again as 3 different people (which I am
not),
I have imported all 3 old Identities to new Mail per instructions and now
divert all-in-one incoming mail mess to each of 3 separate named Inboxes
with
Message Rules. This works fine, except have now a huge list of folders 3
times that of each old Identity. Bad part is importing what were 3 old
separate Identity address books which have now all merged into one fine
mess,
when I really wanted them separate as before. Any solution to this? Have
heard about migrating all to Thunderbird client but why should I Have to
do
this when have already paid for the new MS Vista? Am naturally very
dissapointed with this downgraded Mail client.

Five possibilities:

1. Use different Windows Users

2. Make new folders and make a message rule like this:

Apply this rule after the message arrives
Where the message is from the mail.fjsmjs.com account
Move it to the fjsmjs folder
and Stop processing more rules

3. Use Windows Live Mail which has separate folders for each account:
http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview

4. Buy WMIDs http://www.oehelp.com/WMIDs/Default.aspx

5. Enable the Account column in the Inbox.