identities

[Catherine E. Thompson]

I have two different email addresses, one for business, one for personal.
With Vista it looks like I have to set up a whole new user with desktop and
all files saved etc. in order to get my mail downloaded from my second
email address . Is this correct? I certainly prefer the "change
identities" function with windows xp.
PLease help if anyone knows a better way. Thanks.c

 

[Guest]

I have two different email addresses, one for business, one for personal.
With Vista it looks like I have to set up a whole new user with desktop and
all files saved etc. in order to get my mail downloaded from my second
email address . Is this correct? I certainly prefer the "change
identities" function with windows xp.
PLease help if anyone knows a better way. Thanks.c

Windows Mail doesn't support identities. However, you can add a second
email account to the same user's setup under Windows Mail and have all
the incoming mail from both email accounts go into one Inbox.

 

[mac]

I have two different email addresses, one for business, one for personal.
With Vista it looks like I have to set up a whole new user with desktop and
all files saved etc. in order to get my mail downloaded from my second
email address . Is this correct? I certainly prefer the "change
identities" function with windows xp.
PLease help if anyone knows a better way. Thanks.c

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

Not free.

 

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

I have two different email addresses, one for business, one for personal.
With Vista it looks like I have to set up a whole new user with desktop and
all files saved etc. in order to get my mail downloaded from my second
email address . Is this correct?
No.

I certainly prefer the "change identities" function with windows xp.
PLease help if anyone knows a better way. Thanks.c

You can work two ways after adding the second account from Tools | Accounts:

1. Just let all the mail come to the same Inbox. WinMail will
automatically reply using the account that downloaded the mail.

2. Make a new folder and use a Message Rule from the Tools menu to move
mail to it. Here's one of my rules:
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

Or, You can get Windows Live Mail which automatically uses different folders
for different accounts.

I use method 2 in Windows Mail.

 

[Linda Espinosa]

what was the answer?

 

[Dave]

There are 4 replies to her question.