Multiple identities in Windows Mail

[Guest]

I am confused. I had Outlook on my old pc, but don't have it on my new PC. So
I've set up Windows mail, and put the details for mine and my husbands email
accounts in. But everything feeds through to the same email inbox, rather
than us switching between our own inboxes. Can this be remedied? I just want
to be able to see my emails independently of my husbands! Please help!

 

[Peter]

Per File tab/Identities then the Help section:

The ability to create e‑mail identities in Outlook Express, which allowed
multiple people sharing the same computer to keep their e‑mail separate, has
been removed in Windows Mail. Instead, Windows Mail enables you to create
separate Windows user accounts for each person who wants to use e‑mail on a
single computer. If you're upgrading to Windows Mail from an Outlook Express
account that contains multiple e‑mail identities, Windows Mail will
automatically launch a wizard to guide you through the process of importing
your previous e‑mail identities into your current user account. This wizard
will launch each time Windows Mail is started until all identities have been
imported or deleted.

 

[Dave]

If your Outlook is 2002 or newer, it can be installed and used on Vista.

If you want to add the identities feature back onto Windows Mail, you can
try
http://www.oehelp.com/WMIDs/ a program written by Steve Cochran, who posts
here.

Or, you can do what Microsoft intended, and create 2 user accounts for each
of you to log into. This will keep your settings & files separate.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

You can either upgrade to the free Windows Live Mail beta
(which has a separate inbox for each account, or you can
set up a couple of message rules in Windows Mail:

Incoming mail can be separated through message rules.
Go to Tools, Message Rules, Mail, New...
and the wizard will guide you through the creation of a new message
rule. You should wind up with two rules looking something like this:

1. Where the message is from the 'Guy' account
move it to the 'His' folder
and stop processing more rules.

2. Where the message is from the 'Girl' account
move it to the 'Hers' folder
and stop processing more rules.

Note: Substitute your existing account names for what I've called
the 'Guy' and 'Girl' accounts above.
The new folders can be named anything you want, and they can
be created as part of the rule creation process.

Gary VanderMolen

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Outlook 2002 can be installed, but it fails to remember passwords:
http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/vista.htm

Outlook 2003 and later have no issues with Vista.

Gary VanderMolen

 

[Richard in AZ]

Try a $15 program from www.oehelp.com/WMID

 

[Ron Sommer]

Is that a change from Outlook Express, where the folders need to be created
before making the rule?
--
Ronald Sommer

snipped
: The new folders can be named anything you want, and they can
: be created as part of the rule creation process.
:
: Gary VanderMolen
:

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

It's been quite a while since I created a rule in OE, so I don't remember.

Gary VanderMolen