Multiple users on one Windows mail account

[Gary VanderMolen]

Think of WLM as WM + fixes + optional Hotmail access.
It is not Hotmail-based.

Gary VanderMolen

Hi Gary,

thanks; read the specs but - how does WLM accomodate my current 5 business account that are served from @orange.nl and
(e-mail address removed)?

WLM seems @hotmail.com based, which I could not switch to without dumping my above emailaccounts, deserting my customers.
Is my assumption correct?

Curious, Maria



"Gary VanderMolen" <[email protected]> schreef in bericht | Switch to Windows Live Mail. It has a separate inbox and folders for every account.
| http://get.live.com/betas/maildesktop_betas
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| Gary VanderMolen
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|
| > Steve, I must be braindead, because I can't for the life of me figure out how
| > to do what you are saying.... I have just 2 accounts, and it is critical that
| > I keep the inbox and folders separate.
| >
| > Outlook Express' feature of switching identities seemed so easy - one or 2
| > clicks and I could shift back and forth between accounts.
| >
| > "Steve Cochran" wrote:
| >
| >> What you can do is act as a filter and only download the mail from your
| >> account. Then, since the messages are individual eml files, copy the
| >> messages you want them to see to a folder. Then you can copy that folder in
| >> Windows Explorer to a user directory that all users have access to. Then
| >> they can all access those messages via Windows Explorer browsing to that
| >> directory, rather than even needing WinMail to do it.
| >>
| >> So the administrator message store would be located under
| >>
| >> c:\users\adminname\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Mail\
| >>
| >> If you copied the messages in WinMail to a folder called Share, then the
| >> messages would be located under \Local Folders\Share. You can copy that
| >> directory to a location each user can access and then they can all see those
| >> messages, and not any others.
| >>
| >>
| >> steve
| >>
| >> | >> > I'm the father of a family of 4 & the administrator of a new Vista OS. Is
| >> > there a way all 4 users can access the same e-mail account on Windows
| >> > Mail?
| >> > I don't want to allow all users access to my administrator user account to
| >> > let them get the e-mails that are sent to the family generally. And I
| >> > don't
| >> > want to have in-bound e-mails quadrupled just so we can each get them on
| >> > our
| >> > own account
| >>
|

 

[Steve Cochran]

You can get my WMIDs program. See www.oehelp.com/WMIDs/ That may be what
you are looking for.

steve

 

[Mancini Family]

I am looking to do the same (similar) thing. Multiple Users on Vista using
the same eMail accounts. This gives everyone on our computer access to
everyone's eMail (one copy, one set of rules, etc....). Giving everyone
control without duplicating sorting work.
I was able to locate the eMail file on the hard drive, set it up as a shared
file and then log onto the other Vista User and attach to the eMail file.
Unfortunately every time I switched between Vista Users the Login IDs and
Passwords for the input and output servers were cleared and needed to be
retyped. I found this an unusable situation.

Searching for an eMail program that will do the above.

Mike

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Outlook Express had the same bug when sharing one mail database
among different Windows users.

Gary VanderMolen

 

[Steve Cochran]

The problem is the account passwords use a different encryption between
users, so the password information has to be entered each time. However, if
you create a batch file that copies over a single users' account for each
user, then when you boot, run the batch file to overwrite the account
information that is currently in the message store with the account info for
that user, then you won't get prompted each time.

So set up each user and have them enter the password, and then store a copy
the acct file in that user's profile. Then when switching to that user, run
the batch file to copy the file into the message store.

see www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx#wm for details.

steve

 

[Mancini Family]

Thanks for letting me know. I almost wasted good $ by purchasing Outlook.
Mike

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

??? I said nothing about Outlook.
I don't know what capabilities Outlook has in this regard.

Gary VanderMolen

 

[Steve Cochran]

That is incorrect.

steve

Outlook Express had the same bug when sharing one mail database
among different Windows users.

Gary VanderMolen