OE Identities

[Steven Underwood]

I just upgraded from OE to WLM and found the loss of Identities. I did not
use Identities for separate incoming messages (all messages come through the
same incoming account and are split by the address they are sent to). My
use of Identities was to allow sending from different addresses. My mail
provider allows for "plused" addressing (account+specific@doamin). I have
identities setup for each member of the family and others for various
reasons (soccer coaching, etc.) All identities had the same account
information and were not used for picking up mail, only sending. My
children are not allowed to have their own email accounts at this point.

WLM did not import those identities on install and I can not seem to figure
out how to get them imported. The wizard is telling me that all identities
have been imported or deleted, but they have not. I am now afraid to
uninstall to get back to OE figuring since the new program can not find
those identities, the old one will not be able to either. I setup one as
a new account within the Windows account and it seems to work, but now have
no record of all the identities I had setup.

Does anyone have experience uninstalling WLM in a similar situation and
having the old identities return?

Why does WLM feel the need to replace OE or WM rather than install next to
it so I could have deleted the unwanted program after a full test? Nowhere
do I see any warning that this program will replace your existing
application.

 

[Earle Horton]

This is the Windows Mail discussion group. Windows Mail is a component of
Microsoft Vista operating system. Perhaps you meant to post to
microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop? That is the WLM discussion
group.

WLM exists alongside of OE or WM. You should have no trouble starting up OE
now and accessing your old identities. WLM did not delete any of your OE
information. Well, it's not supposed to. In "Set Program Access and
Defaults" you can restore OE as your default email program without
uninstalling Windows Live Mail.

Identities are not supported at all in Windows Live Mail. Now if you want
to try importing your information from more than one Outlook Express
identity, try this. Start up OE, go to File, Identities, Manage Identities,
and change your default Identity to the second one. Quit OE, start up WLM,
and import from OE. It "should" import all the information from the second
identity. Quit WLM, start OE, change Identity, repeat until all are done.

 

[mac]

I just upgraded from OE to WLM and found the loss of Identities. I did not
use Identities for separate incoming messages (all messages come through
the same incoming account and are split by the address they are sent to).
My use of Identities was to allow sending from different addresses. My
mail provider allows for "plused" addressing (account+specific@doamin). I
have identities setup for each member of the family and others for various
reasons (soccer coaching, etc.) All identities had the same account
information and were not used for picking up mail, only sending. My
children are not allowed to have their own email accounts at this point.

WLM did not import those identities on install and I can not seem to
figure out how to get them imported. The wizard is telling me that all
identities have been imported or deleted, but they have not. I am now
afraid to uninstall to get back to OE figuring since the new program can
not find those identities, the old one will not be able to either. I
setup one as a new account within the Windows account and it seems to
work, but now have no record of all the identities I had setup.

Does anyone have experience uninstalling WLM in a similar situation and
having the old identities return?

Why does WLM feel the need to replace OE or WM rather than install next to
it so I could have deleted the unwanted program after a full test?
Nowhere do I see any warning that this program will replace your existing
application.

Are you talking about XP, & or Vista?

Some of the above is 'Double Dutch' without some clarification, please.

 

[Steven Underwood]

To answer mac's question, the problem is on my WinXP system. My Vista
system is working but setup differently in that I only use IMAP from that
machine.

This is the Windows Mail discussion group. Windows Mail is a component of
Microsoft Vista operating system. Perhaps you meant to post to
microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop? That is the WLM discussion
group.

Sorry.. In reading through this group, I saw lots of WLM requests and
comments.

WLM exists alongside of OE or WM. You should have no trouble starting up
OE now and accessing your old identities. WLM did not delete any of your
OE information. Well, it's not supposed to. In "Set Program Access and
Defaults" you can restore OE as your default email program without
uninstalling Windows Live Mail.

Well, if I should have no trouble, there is something very wrong... on my
Vista install (WLM over Windows Mail in Vista) that works but on my WinXP
install, setting the default to Outlook Express still opens WLM and the OE
application executable file is no longer on the system and all shortcuts
were replaced with WLM icons.

Identities are not supported at all in Windows Live Mail. Now if you want
to try importing your information from more than one Outlook Express
identity, try this. Start up OE, go to File, Identities, Manage
Identities, and change your default Identity to the second one. Quit OE,
start up WLM, and import from OE. It "should" import all the information
from the second identity. Quit WLM, start OE, change Identity, repeat
until all are done.

And as I said earlier, that did not work. Specifically, the wizard is
telling me that all identities have been imported or deleted, but they have
not.

 

[mac]

To answer mac's question, the problem is on my WinXP system. My Vista
system is working but setup differently in that I only use IMAP from that
machine.

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

 

[Steven Underwood]

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

"This program will only run in Windows Vista and is only for Windows
ail." - This is on my WinXP system using Windows Live Mail.

"allowing different individuals to be able to segregate their message store
and settings from other users" - I do not use separate message stores...
only different outgoing addresses. Perhaps it is not Identities I am using
but separate accounts, but I can not confirm this because I can not open the
original OE application.

 

[Steven Underwood]

Update: It was separate accounts, not identities I was using. OE was not
removed, just all existing links to it (msimn.exe) changed to WLM. Went
back to OE because WLM will not import the 20+ accounts I have setup, saying
it is because there is already an account with the same settings. Creating
a new account with those same settings works just fine, but I don't see the
benefit to recreating something that already exists.