view mail on another account

[Guest]

I created a separate email address for my son. How do I check his mail w/o
having to change users on the whole system? Isn't there a way to just switch
email accounts from Outlook? I have MS Office 2003. Any help would be
greatly appreciated!!
Julie

 

[Roady [MVP]]

3 options to when configuring an additional account
-configure it in a separate Windows user account (like you did)
-configure it as a separate mail profile as per
http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/newprofile.htm
-configure it as an additional account in yor current mail profile via
Tools-> E-mail Accounts

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Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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I created a separate email address for my son. How do I check his mail w/o
having to change users on the whole system? Isn't there a way to just
switch
email accounts from Outlook? I have MS Office 2003. Any help would be
greatly appreciated!!
Julie

 

[Guest]

I did the last 2 suggestions you made. (Which basically took me in the exact
same direction). It seemed to work ok, infact last night I had it working
fine. However, today when I clicked on outlook, it did not prompt me as to
which profile to open. Our internet service was out this morning, I don't
know if that has anything to do with it or not. But when you send an email
to my son's address, it ends up in my mail box! I am confused. When I
deleted the account today, then created it again, I clicked the "Always
prompt" button so that it would ask which account to open, but it still will
not do that. It automatically opens my email. What am I doing wrong? By
the way, thanks for your help!

 

[Brian Tillman]

I am confused. When I deleted the account today,
then created it again, I clicked the "Always prompt" button so that
it would ask which account to open, but it still will not do that.

Accounts and mail profiles are not the same thing. To which are you
referring? The "Always prompt" option applies to mail profiles, not mail
accounts.

Also, unless you're using a service like AT&T Yahoo that allows you to
create "subaccounts" that are actually separate Yahoo mailboxes/usernames,
there's no way for you create new mail addresses. Your ISP supplies you
with mail addresses. Sometimes, desipte looking like separate addresses,
they're not really because they both point to the same mailbox on the ISPs
server and you use the same username/password to access the mailbox mo
matter which address you're checking. If that's the case for you, then
Outlook will see them as the same account and mail sent to either address
will wind up in the same mailbox on the ISP's server.