Separating email

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I have two email accounts (Personal / Business) in Outlook 2003 and all of my
mail, from both accounts, goes into the first profile that I open for
viewing. How do I change the settings in Outlook to separate my emails.
 
Patricku said:
I have two email accounts (Personal / Business) in Outlook 2003 and all of
my
mail, from both accounts, goes into the first profile that I open for
viewing. How do I change the settings in Outlook to separate my emails.
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Create a folder for one of the addresses and create a Rule to move emails to
that account to that folder.
 
You either create a new profile with the single mail account, or you use
create folders in the profile that has both mail accounts and use rules to
move msgs to the appropriate Folder.
NB if you create seperate profiles for each mail account you have to
physically close outlook, before you can then open outlook in the other
Profile
 
I have created separate profiles for each account but I still get all of my
email downloaded to the profile I open first,. I don't mind opening and
closing Outlook for the different profiles. It helps in the organization of
my emails. I have not had this problem in the past but I recently had to
reinstall Outlook 2003 due to a crash of my OS. Before that happened, I
would get my Personal emails under my "personal" profile and my Business
emails under my "business" profile without creating folders or using rules to
direct their destination.
 
What type of "rule" would I use to direct my email to my different profiles.
I have never used Rules & Alerts before.
 
Have you checked, in each profile, that only the respective mail account is
set up?
When you close Outlook, you are getting a 'Prompt for Profile' window when
you re start outlook?
 
Patricku said:
I have created separate profiles for each account but I still get all
of my email downloaded to the profile I open first,.
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This indicates that your two addresses are sharing a single mailbox on your
mail server. I'd wager you use the same username/password for the POP
server in each account.

Since both "accounts" reference the same mailbox, Outlook can't tell them
apart. When it connects to the server to get mail, the server simply tells
Outlook about all the mail in the mailbox regardless of what address
received it and Outlook dutifully downloads it all.

Instead of a rule that sorts by receiving account, use a rule that sorts by
meassage header.
I have not had this problem in the past but I recently had to
reinstall Outlook 2003 due to a crash of my OS. Before that happened, I
would get my Personal emails under my "personal" profile and my Business
emails under my "business" profile without creating folders or using rules
to
direct their destination.
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Don't you keep records of how you configure the applications you install on
your PC so as to recover from just such an event?
 
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