Separate E-mail accounts

[Fast Eddie]

I have a new computer with Windows Vista Premium. I am having a hard time
setting up
a separate e-mail account for myself and my wife. I went through the
process, and all of
the mail comes to my account. Any suggestions?

 

[Dave]

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]

I have a new computer with Windows Vista Premium. I am having a hard time
setting up
a separate e-mail account for myself and my wife. I went through the
process, and all of
the mail comes to my account. Any suggestions?

Four 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