I recently upgraded to Vista Home Premium. Of course this came with Windows
Mail rather
then Outlook Express. Now I have 2 email address's on one ISP. One is
business, the other
is for personal email. On Outlook I was able to download the email
seperately on accounts.
But on Windows Mail - it won't allow seperate identities and has merged
these two email
accounts.



I don't want my personal email account and business email account mail and
contacts all
merged together. I had them set as seperate identities for obvioues
reasons. Is there
a way to download the mail from these two email address's seperately and not
all merged
together in one in Windows Mail?

jeanannd

You've posted to the wrong newsgroup. This one is for the Windows Live Mail email client, not the Vista Windows Mail client.
Windows Mail
Nttp:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...ows.vista.mail
On the web:
http://www.microsoft.com/communities...ows.vista.mail

--
...winston
ms-mvp mail

"jeanannd" <jeanannd1@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:0EAF40BE-D783-4870-9270-B72CCC99E772@xxxxxx

> I recently upgraded to Vista Home Premium. Of course this came with Windows
> Mail rather
> then Outlook Express. Now I have 2 email address's on one ISP. One is
> business, the other
> is for personal email. On Outlook I was able to download the email
> seperately on accounts.
> But on Windows Mail - it won't allow seperate identities and has merged
> these two email
> accounts.
>
> I don't want my personal email account and business email account mail and
> contacts all
> merged together. I had them set as seperate identities for obvioues
> reasons. Is there
> a way to download the mail from these two email address's seperately and not
> all merged
> together in one in Windows Mail?
>
> jeanannd
>

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.

2. Use message rules to filter incoming messages into
separate folders.

3. Upgrade to the newer Windows Live Mail which has separate
folders for each account, no rules needed:
http://download.live.com/wlmail

4. Purchase an add-on for Windows mail called WMIDs:
http://www.oehelp.com/WMIDs

I don't recommend the latter because Windows Mail is essentially
obsolete. Microsoft recommends you switch to Windows Live Mail
(option 3).

--
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)


"jeanannd" <jeanannd1@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:0EAF40BE-D783-4870-9270-B72CCC99E772@xxxxxx

>I recently upgraded to Vista Home Premium. Of course this came with Windows
> Mail rather
> then Outlook Express. Now I have 2 email address's on one ISP. One is
> business, the other
> is for personal email. On Outlook I was able to download the email
> seperately on accounts.
> But on Windows Mail - it won't allow seperate identities and has merged
> these two email
> accounts.
>
> I don't want my personal email account and business email account mail and
> contacts all
> merged together. I had them set as seperate identities for obvioues
> reasons. Is there
> a way to download the mail from these two email address's seperately and not
> all merged
> together in one in Windows Mail?
>
> jeanannd
>

http://download.live.com/wlmail
I would use Windows Live Mail.
Each account has Inbox, Drafts, Sent items, Junk e-mail, and Deleted items.
--
Ron Sommer

"jeanannd" <jeanannd1@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:0EAF40BE-D783-4870-9270-B72CCC99E772@xxxxxx

> I recently upgraded to Vista Home Premium. Of course this came with
> Windows Mail rather
> then Outlook Express. Now I have 2 email address's on one ISP. One is
> business, the other
> is for personal email. On Outlook I was able to download the email
> seperately on accounts.
> But on Windows Mail - it won't allow seperate identities and has merged
> these two email
> accounts.
>
> I don't want my personal email account and business email account mail and
> contacts all
> merged together. I had them set as seperate identities for obvioues
> reasons. Is there
> a way to download the mail from these two email address's seperately and
> not all merged
> together in one in Windows Mail?
>
> jeanannd

(boilerplate reply)

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.





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


"jeanannd" <jeanannd1@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:0EAF40BE-D783-4870-9270-B72CCC99E772@xxxxxx

> I recently upgraded to Vista Home Premium. Of course this came with
> Windows Mail rather
> then Outlook Express. Now I have 2 email address's on one ISP. One is
> business, the other
> is for personal email. On Outlook I was able to download the email
> seperately on accounts.
> But on Windows Mail - it won't allow seperate identities and has merged
> these two email
> accounts.
>
> I don't want my personal email account and business email account mail and
> contacts all
> merged together. I had them set as seperate identities for obvioues
> reasons. Is there
> a way to download the mail from these two email address's seperately and
> not all merged
> together in one in Windows Mail?
>
> jeanannd

Added comments

Option 3 would require some additional effort to keep the contacts separate(one of op's requirements)
a. registering one email address as 3rd party Live ID(and used to sign in to Windows Live) and operating the other without Live ID
sign in(Default) or
b. registering both email addresses as a Live ID and alternately signing in to Windows Live for each account and contacts

Option 5 will maintain separate contacts.

--
...winston
ms-mvp mail

"Dave" <Dave@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:eS#7dbeyJHA.3868@xxxxxx

> (boilerplate reply)
>
> 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
>
> 5. Use Windows Mail for one account, Windows Live Mail for another.

WMIDs - puts the Identities feature of OE back into WinMail
http://www.oehelp.com/WMIDs/Default.aspx

For help with the Vista Windows Mail (WM) program, use this Newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...ows.vista.mail

You can also get to the newsgroup via this web site:
http://www.microsoft.com/communities...s/default.mspx
There select Windows Vista, then Windows Mail.


--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm



"jeanannd" <jeanannd1@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:0EAF40BE-D783-4870-9270-B72CCC99E772@xxxxxx

> I recently upgraded to Vista Home Premium. Of course this came with
> Windows Mail rather
> then Outlook Express. Now I have 2 email address's on one ISP. One
> is business, the other
> is for personal email. On Outlook I was able to download the email
> seperately on accounts.
> But on Windows Mail - it won't allow seperate identities and has
> merged these two email
> accounts.
>
> I don't want my personal email account and business email account mail
> and contacts all
> merged together. I had them set as seperate identities for obvioues
> reasons. Is there
> a way to download the mail from these two email address's seperately
> and not all merged
> together in one in Windows Mail?
>
> jeanannd