Windows Mail

[Chuska]

Can anyone help with Windows Mail? First time set up. Created one account for
me which went well. When I tried to set a second account fo rmy husband all
e-mail comes into the same screen....his and mine combbined !!! How do you
seperate???

 

[Guest]

Can anyone help with Windows Mail? First time set up. Created one account
for
me which went well. When I tried to set a second account fo rmy husband
all
e-mail comes into the same screen....his and mine combbined !!! How do you
seperate???

Has your email provider (who is probably also your internet provider)
actually given you two separate accounts, instead of one main
account and an alias for it? If not, whoever checks for mail first
after it reaches the email provider will download it and delete it
from the server. Windows Mail will then put mail for both
email addresses into the same Inbox for that user.

 

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

Can anyone help with Windows Mail? First time set up. Created one account
for
me which went well. When I tried to set a second account fo rmy husband
all
e-mail comes into the same screen....his and mine combbined !!! How do you
seperate???

1. Microsoft recommends that you create a new Windows User for him and set
up his WinMail there.

2. This program gives you the equivalent of identities in Windows Mail:
http://www.oehelp.com/WMIDs/Default.aspx

3. Windows Live Mail puts each account in a different set of folders:
http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview

4. I do this in Windows Mail:
I create a new folder for the account and make a message rule like this:

Apply this rule after the message arrives
Where the message is from the mail.fjsmjs.com account
Move it to the fjsmjs folder
and Stop processing more rules

 

[Dave]

That's the way WM works. You can create rules to move yours and his email
into separate folders.

Or, upgrade to the newer Windows Live Mail, which has separate Inbox,
drafts, sent, etc. folders for each account.

If you need privacy, Create and use 2 separate Vista login accounts.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

There are four different ways to do this.

About the best you can do with just Windows Mail is to use
message rules to separate incoming email so that different
accounts go into different inbox folders.

Another option (not free) can be obtained here:
http://www.oehelp.com/WMIDs/

A third option is to upgrade to Windows Live Mail (WLM).
Although WLM doesn't have the full-blown Identities feature
that OE had, nevertheless it has some of that functionality.
Separate folders for each account help to keep mail separated
without having to use any message rules.

A fourth option is to use separate Windows logins.