Identitys on old outlook

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Scott Waterman

Hi, before I got Vista, I had two identies on my outlook, I do not have it
now. Is there a way to set up two accounts, one for me and one for my wife?
It was so much easier before.

Thank you.
 
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Patrick Keenan

Scott Waterman said:
Hi, before I got Vista, I had two identies on my outlook, I do not have it
now. Is there a way to set up two accounts, one for me and one for my
wife?
It was so much easier before.

Thank you.

No, Windows Mail does not support this. Instead, you can use separate
Windows user accounts, or another mail client that supports multiple
mailboxes. Windows Live Mail doesn't support "identities" either.

As an alternative, the two of you can use different email clients, for
example one using Windows Mail and the other Windows Live Mail or
Thunderbird, etc.

HTH
-pk
 
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Dave

Do you really mean Outlook, or Outlook Express?

(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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