Gary VanderMolen

If you set up the filter rules properly, you won't have both emails
winding up in WifeInbox. You need something like this:

1. Where the message is from the Wife account
move it to the WifeInbox folder
and stop processing more rules.

2. Where the message is from the Husband account
move it to the HusbandInbox folder
and stop processing more rules.

The key is that WinMail/OE knows which account downloaded
a particular message.

Gary VanderMolen

<bbonitz@stny.rr.com> wrote in message news:1173829622.549599.296140@n59g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
> OK, I've been following some of this, but here's a slightly different
> way of asking the question.
>
> In old OE in XP, my wife and I had two accounts: call them Husband@
> and Wife@. So in OE,
> we had two identities set up. So if someone addressed a note as
> follows:
> To: Wife
> cc: Husband
> When I signed onto my identity I would see the note. And then when my
> wife signed onto her
> identity see saw the same note, just under her identity. I understand
> there was really never any
> real security differences between the two identities, but it was kinda
> nice to have them separate.
>
> Now in Windows Mail in Vista, everything comes into a common Inbox.
> Here's the problem. If
> I set up a Message Rule that anything that has Wife@ in the To: or CC:
> goes to WifeInbox, then
> if someone sends a note like the above, both emails go to WifeInbox.
> What I really want is for
> one note to go to WifeInbox and the other to go to HusbandInbox.
>
> I can't seem to figure out in the rules how to do an if/then kind of
> sorting on the notes. Is there
> anyway to get them to separate? Now I know you can probably do what I
> want by having a
> different and separate Windows Vista user account, but it just seems
> to me that switching accounts
> is more painful than the switching of identities in old Outlook
> Express.
>