Simulated Identities?

[Nigel Molesworth]

Several people want to pick up email on the same PC, but we don't want to
have to log out to do so.

Is it possible to simulate OE Identities? Perhaps by having different
shortcuts to WM with different store folders? It gets a bit confusing if we
use the same instance of WM.

Any other solutions? And please don't suggest the disaster that is WLM.

 

[Dave]

If you are willing to part with $15, try WMIDs, written by Dr Steve Cochran,
who posts here...
http://www.oehelp.com/WMIDs/Default.aspx

What's wrong with WLM?

 

[Nigel Molesworth]

If you are willing to part with $15, try WMIDs, written by Dr Steve Cochran,
who posts here... http://www.oehelp.com/WMIDs/Default.aspx

Perfect! Not only does this solve the problem, it also allows me to send
some money to Steve, who once saved my mailbox.

What's wrong with WLM?

Nothing, apart from its appalling handling of multiple email addresses. Even
for my application above it is useless. If I want to separate my emails it
will be on my rules.

 

[mac]

Nothing, apart from its appalling handling of multiple email addresses.
Even
for my application above it is useless. If I want to separate my emails it
will be on my rules.

Hear Hear!!!

 

[Nigel Molesworth]

Hear Hear!!!

Unfortunately, the ability to "hear" seems to be lacking at Microsoft

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Hear Hear!!!

It's actually not that difficult to simulate OE/WM type behavior from WLM.
Rename one of your accounts as the 'Master' or 'Main' account, then move it
to the top of the folder list. Create a new sub-folder in it named 'Incoming'.
Then set up a message rule that directs all incoming mail to that Incoming
folder. You can keep all your other account folders collapsed so they only
take up one line in the folder list.
Then I use Quick Views to keep track of all the Sent Items folders, and all
Junk E-mail folders.

 

[Nigel Molesworth]

You can keep all your other account folders collapsed so they only
take up one line in the folder list.

That's handy to know. I can have each of my 7 other email addresses *only*
take up one line. Much better than WM where they take up, err, zero!

Not only do the incoming messages need to be frigged in WLM, you also have
to deal with Outbox, Sent, Drafts ...

Sorry, until they fix this issue, it's rubbish. This is a real pity because
so much of it is really good.

 

[Nigel Molesworth]

Perfect! Not only does this solve the problem, it also allows me to send
some money to Steve, who once saved my mailbox.

I seem to have hijacked my own thread! A big thanks to Steve for a very
handy utility, not to mention all his other fine work.

 

[Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM]

Unfortunately, the ability to "hear" seems to be lacking at Microsoft

Yes, it does.

 

[Bill Martin]

Perfect! Not only does this solve the problem, it also allows me to send
some money to Steve, who once saved my mailbox.


Nothing, apart from its appalling handling of multiple email addresses. Even
for my application above it is useless. If I want to separate my emails it
will be on my rules.

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Amen. I downloaded WLM and ran it for an hour. I couldn't believe a
team of developers could work for two years on a project and come up
with such an abysmal user interface.

Bill

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

As the old saying goes, you can't please all of the people all of the time.
The average user has only two or three accounts, so WLM's folder
structure works well for the average user.

 

[Nigel Molesworth]

The average user has only two or three accounts, so WLM's folder
structure works well for the average user.

Sorry, I disagree.

Even with 2 accounts, you have twice as many places you have to look in to
find something. Scenario: Reply to Alice, then think "Perhaps I should
forward that last email to Bob. Huh? Where did it go? Oh, there it is, in
the other fu74ing Sent folder!"

This is more dumb than dumb and dumber.

 

[Bill Martin]

As the old saying goes, you can't please all of the people all of the time.
The average user has only two or three accounts, so WLM's folder
structure works well for the average user.

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Personally, I think that's completely wrong. I only have 4 accounts
(close to 2 or 3) and it drove me crazy searching around for things. To
me that file structure was an absolute product killer.

I can understand making that approach an option for those who want it.
But I don't understand forcing it on a user. I'd be curious if the
developers had tons of data that people preferred it that way, or
whether the team themselves liked it and presumed everyone would. No
way we'll ever know I guess.

Anyhow, given that Windows Mail stripped some functionality out of OE,
and that I found WLM to be unusable, I'm writing this on Thunderbird.
Which is the advantage of competition I guess. Something is out there
for every taste.

Bill

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Sorry, I disagree.

Even with 2 accounts, you have twice as many places you have to look in to
find something. Scenario: Reply to Alice, then think "Perhaps I should
forward that last email to Bob. Huh? Where did it go? Oh, there it is, in
the other fu74ing Sent folder!"

Which is why "All sent items" is one of my Quick View folders.

This is more dumb than dumb and dumber.

It's just a different way of working. Many users need to keep their
personal mail and business mail segregated, and this is one way of
doing that without having to create message rules.

 

[Nigel Molesworth]

Which is why "All sent items" is one of my Quick View folders.

A kludge.