User accounts - HELP!

[roby2000]

I set up two accounts on Mail which used to be identities on other email.
How do I switch from account to account in Mail and how do I know which one I
am looking at? As usual, Microsoft help is no help.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

You can have up to 32 email accounts in Windows Mail.
However, 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

 

[Patrick Keenan]

I set up two accounts on Mail which used to be identities on other email.
How do I switch from account to account in Mail and how do I know which
one I
am looking at? As usual, Microsoft help is no help.

Windows Mail doesn't support identities. It does support multiple
accounts, but everything goes to one Inbox.

If you want multiple inboxes, use Windows Live Mail.

HTH
-pk