Two E-mail Addresses - Same User Name

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Hi,

Using Outlook 2003 with all updates.

I am trying to find a solution to the following problem. I have a friend
trying to set up e-mail addresses for him and his wife as follows:

(e-mail address removed) (Obviously not the actual e-mail address)

(e-mail address removed)

They have seperate log-on's to the computer running Windows XP with all
updates. As things stand because the username for each address is identical
e-mails sent to both addresses are downloaded to whoever is logged on at the
time. I wish to set up rules so that when 'her' is logged on e-mails sent to
'him' are simply left on the server and, obviously, vice versa. This option
simply isn't provided within the Rules options within Outlook 2003..
bizarely, this option is available in the Outlook Express rules.

Anyone got any clever ways around this problem?

Thanks is advance.

AC
 
If they each have a separate e-mail address, I don't understand what you
mean by "the username is the same"...if they are each logging into Windows
separately, each should have his/her own copy of Outlook, with only the
e-mail address belonging to the current user set up in that copy of Outlook.
What am I missing?

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To indicate what I mean look at two example e-mail addresses below. These
are straightforward POP3 addresses.

(e-mail address removed)

(e-mail address removed)

These ar two e-mail addresses on the same account. Everything after the '@'
symbol (i.e. Username) is identical, therefore, when Mr Smith logs onto the
comuter, opens Outlook and downloads the e-mails he will also get Mrs Smiths.
In Outlook Express you can write a rule for each of them that leaves the
others e-mail on the server. I can find no way of doing this within the
Outlook 2003 rules.


I hope this clarifies things.

Regards

AC
 
AC said:
To indicate what I mean look at two example e-mail addresses below. These
are straightforward POP3 addresses.

(e-mail address removed)

(e-mail address removed)
Click to expand...

Then they are Aliases of the one account, and NOT separate email
addresses. The only answer, if you want separate Windows users is to set
up another account - does your ISP have free accounts for pay-as-you-go
customers? If so set one of those up and access it through your main
access method
 
I find this amazing as it is perfectly possible to set up rules to do this in
Outlook Express but apparently not in Outlook. Indeed this is how I did it
for them before they started to use Outlook.

Regards

AC
 
AC said:
I find this amazing as it is perfectly possible to set up rules to do
this in Outlook Express but apparently not in Outlook. Indeed this
is how I did it for them before they started to use Outlook.
Click to expand...

OE is designed as a "home" email client therefore it will do this. Outlook
is a commercial email client designed to work in an organisational scenario,
usually with Exchange Server, hence some of the functions that a "home" user
would find useful just aren't there.

You can certainly set up rules in Outlook to move email from the two aliases
into different folders in the one pst file and then point each instance of
Outlook at that pst file.
 
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