Getting My Email

[Ernest]

Hi
New to Vista and Windows Mail.
I set up two identies...one for me...one for my wife.
Why is it that when I went to check my email after my wife checked hers, her
inbox keeps showing up?
There seems to be no log off function so that email starts like it should.

Regards
Ernest

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

How did you manage to set up 'identities'? Windows Mail doesn't have
the Identities feature. If you mean you set up two accounts in Windows Mail,
by default it dumps all incoming email from all POP accounts into one Inbox.

 

[Dave]

(boilerplate reply)

You can add multiple accounts, via Tools - Accounts - Add, but Windows Mail
doesn't have identities or a password option....

Windows Mail puts email from all accounts into the same Inbox, and there's
no setting to change that. When you send a message, you can select which
account to send from, by clicking on the From: box.

Here are a few alternatives to keep your email separate...

1. Create folders for each email account and create message rules to move
email addressed to each account into the appropriate folder.

2. Create and use different Windows Users, each with WM accessing only
their email account. (This is how you set a password to keep other users
out.)

3. Use the newer Windows Live Mail which has separate folders for each
account, but no identities or password:
http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview

4. Purchase WMIDs which adds identities to WM
http://www.oehelp.com/WMIDs/Default.aspx

5. Use Windows Mail for one account, Windows Live Mail for another.