Frankster

Yes, I agree, generally. And I wish to echo the other posters appreciation
of your contributions. Thanks!

Yeah, there are conveniences attached to identities... I guess. But most of
this can be done via "rules" and sorting of multiple email accounts.
Anyway....

-Frank

"Steve Cochran" <scochran@oehelp.com> wrote in message
news:778A1289-D396-4D76-93EE-B5DA4237501E@microsoft.com...
> Yeah, but others have said they want to segregate their store between
> business and personal. And others are hubby and wifey with no secrets
> from each other, so they log on to the same user space, but they want to
> keep their mail accounts and messages separate, but not secure from each
> other.
>
> It also useful for those whose message stores have gotten corrupted, as
> they can fix that issue by setting up a new Identity, as was often the
> need in OE.
>
> But I made that point very clear, so there would not be any false sense of
> security.
>
> cheers,
>
> steve
>
> "Frankster" <Frank@SPAM2TRASH.com> wrote in message
> news:rsGdnW_Dlp5zHXDYnZ2dnUVZ_silnZ2d@giganews.com...
>>> Note, however, that in such a circumstance, the other users can access
>>> each others' messages via Windows > Explorer, so there is no security /
>>> privacy. That can only be achieved by different user logons.
>>
>> Exactly. Which is probably why MS eliminated "Identities" to begin with.
>> False sense of security that never did exist.
>>
>> -Frank
>