"Switch Identities" ?

[Gary VanderMolen]

It sounds like you are confusing "identities" with email accounts.
Windows Mail does not have the Identities feature that OE had.
To achieve an equivalent feature, you will need to use message rules.
Go into Tools > Message Rules > Mail > New,
and the wizard will guide you through the creation of a new message
rule. You should wind up with two rules looking something like this:

1. Where the message is from the 'His' account
move it to the Husband folder
and stop processing more rules.

2. Where the message is from the 'Her' account
move it to the Wife folder
and stop processing more rules.

Hope this helps.

Gary VanderMolen

 

[Ron Sommer]

You need to check the settings for your account.
There can be more than one account setup in Windows Mail.
One account will be the default and will be the one in the From box when you
compose emails.
Windows Mail will have both accounts using the same Inbox and Sent items.
--
Ronald Sommer

: Using outlook in XP, my wife's identity was the default, mine was #2, we
: could toggle between the separate identies, and we could each get our own
: email.
:
: In Windows Mail, only my wife's mail comes through to her default
identity.
: Mine does not, (although we can select either identity to use as the
sender
: for outgoing mail.)
:
: Earlier writers on this site have indicated that email directed to the
: secondary identity will show up in the default account, but I don't know
how
: to do that. Can this be corrected, and can anyone tell me how?
:
: The alternative, so it seems, is that I'll be unable to receive mail until
I
: notify all my contacts to use my wife's default email address, because my
: own original address has disappeared.
:
:
:

 

[Pat Klein]

Using outlook in XP, my wife's identity was the default, mine was #2, we
could toggle between the separate identies, and we could each get our own
email.

In Windows Mail, only my wife's mail comes through to her default identity.
Mine does not, (although we can select either identity to use as the sender
for outgoing mail.)

Earlier writers on this site have indicated that email directed to the
secondary identity will show up in the default account, but I don't know how
to do that. Can this be corrected, and can anyone tell me how?

The alternative, so it seems, is that I'll be unable to receive mail until I
notify all my contacts to use my wife's default email address, because my
own original address has disappeared.