windows mail

Garry L · External Since: Nov 02, 2009 Posts: 1

my service provider lets me have two addresses... with xp and outlook express
I could simply switch identities to read both. but with vistas and windows
mail, I cannot do this....help, what do I do ?
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Garry M L

Gary VanderMolen · External Since: Mar 09, 2007 Posts: 4539

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

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Gary VanderMolen, Microsoft MVP (Mail)
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/profile/vandermolen

"Garry L" <dglindberg RemoveThis @sympatico.ca.(donotspam)> wrote in message news:2548A0C1-7626-4DEB-B000-53726594774F@microsoft.com...
> my service provider lets me have two addresses... with xp and outlook express
> I could simply switch identities to read both. but with vistas and windows
> mail, I cannot do this....help, what do I do ?
> --
> Garry M L

Dave · External Since: Jan 12, 2009 Posts: 185

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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.

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Windows 7 Ultimate
http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview
http://download.live.com/wlmail

"Garry L" <dglindberg RemoveThis @sympatico.ca.(donotspam)> wrote in message
news:2548A0C1-7626-4DEB-B000-53726594774F@microsoft.com...
> my service provider lets me have two addresses... with xp and outlook
> express
> I could simply switch identities to read both. but with vistas and windows
> mail, I cannot do this....help, what do I do ?
> --
> Garry M L

slk759 · External Since: Oct 11, 2009 Posts: 16

Windows mail does not maintain separate identities. You can have the two
mail accounts, but all mail will go into the one Inbox under your sign-in.
The only way to separate the mail accounts is to set up two different user
logins (for Vista) and assign one mail account to each login. Then you will
have to login to Vista as each separate user to see each separate email.

"Garry L" <dglindberg.DeleteThis@sympatico.ca.(donotspam)> wrote in message
news:2548A0C1-7626-4DEB-B000-53726594774F@microsoft.com...
> my service provider lets me have two addresses... with xp and outlook
> express
> I could simply switch identities to read both. but with vistas and windows
> mail, I cannot do this....help, what do I do ?
> --
> Garry M L