Windows Mail Accounts

[Phil Rhodes]

I didn't have a problem setting up Windows Mail for my new laptop - my
account works fine. But when I set up an 'Identity' for my wife, then tried
setting up her Windows Mail account, I ran into trouble - I got a pop up
from Vista saying "Identity's" are no longet used by Windows Mail. Set up an
"Individual User Account". But I thought that was what I was doing! Is Vista
telling me I can't have a separate Identity for my wife where she can check
her own email? Does she have to check her email from my signed in Identity?

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Manage User Accounts (tutorial)
http://www.vista4beginners.com/Manage-User-Accounts

You can add the Identity feature to Windows Mail such that your wife can
have her own access to Windows Mail if she's using your User Account. See
http://www.oehelp.com/WMIDs/Default.aspx

 

[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.

 

[Phil Rhodes]

Thanks, "Dave" - this explains the fixs very well, I hope. It's getting so
things have to become complicated, for security, I recon.