default account recieves mail for other account

[Guest]

I have set up two separate accounts in Windows Mail, but my default account
gets a copy of mail sent to the other account. I had this problem in OE too
but could never resolve it and hoped it wouldn't happen with windows mail!
Could it be due to my ISP? The two accounts have different names and
different passwords.

 

[Jim Pickering]

That suggests that the two addresses are in fact "aliases" for a single
account. Contact your ISP for further info since you may have to pay to add
an additional "account" to get another address. Many ISPs will allow you to
have as many as 10 or more email addresses, but in fact, they are all
aliases for the same account.

 

[Slugsie]

If I understand you correctly, you have created two email accounts in
Windows Mail within the same Windows user account (the one you log into the
PC with).

If so, then Windows Mail will lump all email from each email account into
the same inbox. In Outlook Express you could maintain separate Indentities
within OE to keep such email accounts separate. This is no longer possible
within Windows Mail. The nearest you can do to keep these separate is to
create an additional email folder(s) within Windows Mail, and use Rules to
direct all incoming mail from additional accounts into appropriate folders.

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM]

I have set up two separate accounts in Windows Mail, but my default account
gets a copy of mail sent to the other account. I had this problem in OE
too
but could never resolve it and hoped it wouldn't happen with windows mail!
Could it be due to my ISP? The two accounts have different names and
different passwords.

If these two accounts are POP3 accounts in Windows Mail in the same Windows
User logon they will go to the same Inbox unless you make a message folder
and 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

 

[bbonitz]

OK, I've been following some of this, but here's a slightly different
way of asking the question.

In old OE in XP, my wife and I had two accounts: call them Husband@
and Wife@. So in OE,
we had two identities set up. So if someone addressed a note as
follows:
To: Wife
cc: Husband
When I signed onto my identity I would see the note. And then when my
wife signed onto her
identity see saw the same note, just under her identity. I understand
there was really never any
real security differences between the two identities, but it was kinda
nice to have them separate.

Now in Windows Mail in Vista, everything comes into a common Inbox.
Here's the problem. If
I set up a Message Rule that anything that has Wife@ in the To: or CC:
goes to WifeInbox, then
if someone sends a note like the above, both emails go to WifeInbox.
What I really want is for
one note to go to WifeInbox and the other to go to HusbandInbox.

I can't seem to figure out in the rules how to do an if/then kind of
sorting on the notes. Is there
anyway to get them to separate? Now I know you can probably do what I
want by having a
different and separate Windows Vista user account, but it just seems
to me that switching accounts
is more painful than the switching of identities in old Outlook
Express.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

If you set up the filter rules properly, you won't have both emails
winding up in WifeInbox. You need something like this:

1. Where the message is from the Wife account
move it to the WifeInbox folder
and stop processing more rules.

2. Where the message is from the Husband account
move it to the HusbandInbox folder
and stop processing more rules.

The key is that WinMail/OE knows which account downloaded
a particular message.

Gary VanderMolen

 

[Guest]

I have only one question? Why is it necessary to add the line:
"and stop processing more rules." ????

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

If you don't have the "stop processing", it will try to execute the next
message rule on the same message. This does not always cause a problem,
but it can, especially if you have many rules. In the interest of maximum
efficiency, the rule processing for a message should be stopped as soon
as the proper disposition is found.