Numerous accounts for Windows Mail

[Jerry]

We just installed windows mail. We would like to have two accounts. One for
me and one for my wife. I tried adding my wife's account from the "accounts"
tab. Windows Mail then added her e-mail into my inbox (her e-mail and my
e-mail merged). This is not what we want. Do I need to install another form
of windows mail, exclusively for my wife? Or, is there a way to seperate
twoe-mail accounts under the same windows mail program?

Please help! Thanks in advance!

 

[Dave]

You can add multiple accounts, 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...

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

 

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

We just installed windows mail. We would like to have two accounts. One
for
me and one for my wife. I tried adding my wife's account from the
"accounts"
tab. Windows Mail then added her e-mail into my inbox (her e-mail and my
e-mail merged). This is not what we want. Do I need to install another
form
of windows mail, exclusively for my wife? Or, is there a way to seperate
twoe-mail accounts under the same windows mail program?

Please help! Thanks in advance!

Five possibilities:

1. Use different Windows Users

2. Make new folders and make a message rule like this:

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

3. Use Windows Live Mail which has separate folders for each account:
http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview

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

5. Enable the Account column in the Inbox.