Profiles / Identities for Windows Mail???

[Steve210]

Outlook had Profiles. Outlook Express had seperate Identities so as to
complelety seperate email accounts (so mail from different accounts does not
arrive on same inbox. How do you set up different Profiles or Identies on
Windows Mail???

 

[Dave]

(boilerplate reply)

You can add multiple accounts, via Tools - Accounts - Add, 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 to keep your email separate...

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

5. Use Windows Mail for one account, Windows Live Mail for another.

 

[Wandering]

Outlook had Profiles. Outlook Express had seperate Identities so as to
complelety seperate email accounts (so mail from different accounts does
not arrive on same inbox. How do you set up different Profiles or
Identies on Windows Mail???

Quickly, you don't! What you do is set up different user accounts in Vista.
Then each user will in effect have their own version of Windows Mail to work
with.

Good luck.

 

[Dano]

Wandering, I have the same prob as steve, I have already created different
user accounts. Can you tell me how to import ad book and previous emails to
each account.