Windows mail

[Mike]

I went from XP to Vista and I'm trying to set up four seperate email
accounts, I set up the accounts as described in Windows Mail help and my
account is the default, but insted of the emails going to their respective
accounts, they "all" come to my inbox. any ideas here?????

 

[Stubbo of Oz]

I went from XP to Vista and I'm trying to set up four seperate email
accounts, I set up the accounts as described in Windows Mail help and my
account is the default, but insted of the emails going to their respective
accounts, they "all" come to my inbox. any ideas here?????

Are you confusing the XP system of allowing separate IDENTITIES with
the Vista Windows mail of having different email accounts for the
same user?

Vista no longer allows separate identities. All email accounts will be
with the one user/identity and will all go into the same the one
inbox.

You could create new sub-folders of the inbox, one for each email
account, and set up message rules to divert the messages for the
various accounts into their own sub-folders.

If your various email accounts are for different family members then
you could have seperate windows log in for each member which can be
set up through Control Panel - User Accounts.

Another way to go is to get the MS Windows Live Mail program but that,
IMHO is crap.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Windows Mail does not have identities like Outlook Express did.
By default, all email from all POP 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