Multiple Users in Windows Mail

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Wanda Lee

I have three email addresses for multiple users in our home who use Comcast.
I have built them all into windows mail. is there any way to download them
so they don't all go to my inbox?
 
Windows Mail puts all email from all accounts into one Inbox.
You can create a folder for each account, and create message rules to move
the mail from one account into one of the folders.
But there is no privacy.
If you need privacy, create a Vista login account for each user, and set up
Windows Mail for each user to only access their account.

Or, you could use the newer Windows Live Mail, which has separate Inboxes,
etc. for each account, but no privacy.
 
No, but it has a separate set of folders for each email account.

Does Windows Mail have identities like Outlook Express, or something
similar?
 
i tried your suggestion and gave each seperate account their own rules and
now all the emails are going to one account. i have three seperate ones and
cannot seem to get two of them to go to their own folder, any ideas of what i
may be doing wrong? Vista seems to be such a challenge.
 
message rule for Account1
1. [x] where the To or CC line contains people
2. [x] Move it to the specified folder
3. click on "contains people", add the email address of account1
ok
click on "specified folder", select the account1 folder
4. Name the rule
OK

do this for account 2 & 3

you can test the rules with the "Apply Now" button
 
If the accounts are a master account and a few alias accounts for it,
whoever
downloads mail first will download mail for all the accounts.
 
However, those rules won't work when receiving BCC-addressed emails.
I have better luck by filtering on the account rather than on "people".
--
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (WLMail)


Dave said:
message rule for Account1
1. [x] where the To or CC line contains people
2. [x] Move it to the specified folder
3. click on "contains people", add the email address of account1
ok
click on "specified folder", select the account1 folder
4. Name the rule
OK

do this for account 2 & 3

you can test the rules with the "Apply Now" button

--
http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview

Wanda Lee said:
i tried your suggestion and gave each seperate account their own rules and
now all the emails are going to one account. i have three seperate ones and
cannot seem to get two of them to go to their own folder, any ideas of what i
may be doing wrong? Vista seems to be such a challenge.
 
kmackay said:
We have 3 e-mail accounts on Windows Mail. I think I am getting my kids
e-mail every time I am in my "user" account. If the kids are in their
account, then they get their e-mail. I'm not sure what would happen if
we were all logged off. It is not a matter of clicking a default
button, tried that already! Can anyone help? KM


Windows Mail does not have identities like OE did. Also, if the accounts
are aliases for the same mailbox on the server, any time one account checks
it sill get all the email for all of the 'accounts' that is on the server.

Are these accounts set up in separate Windows Users?
If so, do you have their accounts set up in Windows Mail in your Windows
User?
 
kmackay said:
OK, bare with me. When I go into tools, then accounts, I see the mailbox
and I am shawmail default, then each kid is shawmail(1)/shawmail(2).
Don't really know what a seperate Window Users account should look
like, or if this has answered your question. What next? Thanks, KM
Have you created separate user accounts for each person outside Windows
Mail?

http://www.vista4beginners.com/Manage-User-Accounts

If so, do you have separate accounts for each user on the email server,
not the common one master account and a few alias accounts?

If you have separate accounts in both places, you just tell Windows
Mail about that user's account on the email server under each user
account under Vista, and it will keep the messages for each user
separate.

If you have alias accounts on the email server, all you can do is to
see that each user gets copies of the mail intended for any of the
users. To do this, have separate user accounts under Vista, but
for each account, start Windows Mail, click on Tools, then
Accounts, then the email account, then Properties, then Advanced.
If there is no check mark in the box before Leave a copy of
messages on server, click on this box and then Apply. It's a good
idea to also choose one of the methods of eventually deleting the
messages, to keep from getting the server so full of your messages
that it refuses to accept more; if you do, click on Apply again.
Click on OK, then Close.
 
"Windows Live" as in the Windows Live Mail (WLM) program?
This newsgroup is dedicated to the Windows Mail program.
You will get more help by posting that question in the WLM newsgroup:

http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...dg=microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop
or via your news reader: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop

Incidentally, Windows Live is the name for a whole suite of programs,
see http://www.windowslive.com/get
You need to be careful about specifying the exact name of the program
you are talking about.
 
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