Setting up Windows Mail Accounts

[Boomerang]

I tried this last night. I have four accounts. After setting up each
account and using my ISP information, all email for all four accounts dumped
in to the default account. What am I doing wrong please?

 

[DL]

What makes you think anything is wrong?

 

[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.

 

[Boomerang]

With my old computer and Outlook Express I was able to set up four unique
email accounts or identities, and email was dumped from the ISP server in to
each unique account. Here with Windows Mail, it's not doing that. It's
dumping in to one account, mine, and then I've got to manually put email
received in my children's made folder. Something has got to be wrong, or I
need to go back to Outlook or Outlook Express. My desired goal is for
everyone to have their own account or identitfy and receive email in their
account, and I'm not getting that now.

 

[t-4-2]

Suggestion :
Install Windows Live Mail. It does exactly what you are asking..... e-mails
go to appropriate accounts.
Link to WLM : http://download.live.com

t-4-2

 

[t-4-2]

Additional notes :
In case it is misunderstood, you can still use BOTH Windows Mail and Windows
Live Mail. One will have to be the default program.
Some users said they used one for regular e-mailing, the other one for
newsgroups correspondence.

t-4-2

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Windows Mail does not have Identities like Outlook Express did.
By default, all email from all accounts goes into the same Inbox.
There are four different ways of changing that:

1. Use separate Windows user logins. That gives total privacy, and is
ideal when two different people use the same computer.

2. Use message rules to filter incoming messages into
separate mail folders.

3. Upgrade to Windows Live Mail which has separate folders for each
account, no rules needed: http://download.live.com/wlmail

4. Purchase an add-on called WMIDs:
http://www.oehelp.com/WMIDs