How to Set up separate E-mail accounts & Inbox's

[Pam Velasquez]

I have just changed to Vista and am using Microsoft mail. In our household
we usually have separate E-mail Inbox folders and E-mail accounts in
Outlook. I am sending and receiving mail in the "main Inbox" and not able to
send or receive mail in the secondary accounts. I have double checked the
setup - and have the secondary accounts set up as previously set up in
Outlook. I am not sure why the main account works in Vista and not the
secondary accounts?

Pam V.

 

[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.
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