Vista - WMIDs -- Windows Mail Identies -- New program to replace the OE Identities feature removed from Windows Mail

"Frankster" <Frank@SPAM2TRASH.com> wrote in message
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> You miss the point. MS did not even try to make separate mail accounts
> secure from the the [person - singular] on that logon. Therefore there is
> no reason to try to protect the db files from the logged on user. If you
> want security, create another logon WITHOUT Administrator privileges, just
> like the rest of the security minded computer community does. Including
> other OSs like Unix.
>
>
You missed it a long time ago then, it was designed for home users. Gee, how
secure can that be? The lady's 3 year old kid knows more about computers
than she does (Professor does Windows or whatever commercial in the US).

They just made it a little more difficult where the average user can't just
open the dbx file in wordpad and read the mail.

Security was an afterthought.

"DGuess" <majik@mindspring.oops> wrote in message
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>
> "Frankster" <Frank@SPAM2TRASH.com> wrote in message
> news:ftqdnYoGg-rQX3DYnZ2dnUVZ_hisnZ2d@giganews.com...
>> You miss the point. MS did not even try to make separate mail accounts
>> secure from the the [person - singular] on that logon. Therefore there is
>> no reason to try to protect the db files from the logged on user. If you
>> want security, create another logon WITHOUT Administrator privileges,
>> just like the rest of the security minded computer community does.
>> Including other OSs like Unix.
>>
>>
> You missed it a long time ago then, it was designed for home users. Gee,
> how secure can that be? The lady's 3 year old kid knows more about
> computers than she does (Professor does Windows or whatever commercial in
> the US).
>
> They just made it a little more difficult where the average user can't
> just open the dbx file in wordpad and read the mail.
>
> Security was an afterthought.
>
>

Actually the guy who wrote it thought it was secure and didn't think about
how one could manually import someone else's dbx files.

Here's the URL back. www.oehelp.com/WMIDs/ You guys snipped too much. <G>

steve

"Steve Cochran" <scochran@oehelp.com> wrote in message
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> Actually the guy who wrote it thought it was secure and didn't think about
> how one could manually import someone else's dbx files.
>
> Here's the URL back. www.oehelp.com/WMIDs/ You guys snipped too much.
> <G>
>
> steve
>


Remember people opening the dbx file in Notepad or Wordpad and seeing all
the old data (deleted files, programs, etc) from the drive. Freaked them
out to no end.

I need to know if your program fixes the problem I'm having. I imported my 3
identities when I installed Vista, but then all my husband's email downloaded
into the inbox with mine. I tried deleting his identity from my computer (he
has his own computer) by deleting the folders with his name on it and
deleting the "imported identity" but this morning I opened my mail and there
was another email for him!

Will your program allow my "identity" to get just my email? Is there some
setting I'm missing in Windows mail to make this happen?

"Steve Cochran" wrote:

> Microsoft removed the very useful Identities feature from OE when it changed
> it to Windows Mail.
>
> I've written a program that mimics this feature Windows Mail. This allows
> the user to impersonate different users and maintain segregated settings and
> message stores for each Identity within a given Windows user logon space.
>
> This Identities capability can allow for a single user to have multiple
> settings, or multiple users can maintain separate settings and message
> stores within a single user space. (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.)
>
> For a screen shot and a description of its features, see
> http://www.oehelp.com/WMIDs/Default.aspx
>
> cheers,
>
> Stephen L. Cochran, Ph.D.
>
> MS-MVP
>
>

You don't need my program for this.

It probably imported his mail account. Go to Tools | Accounts | Mail and
see what accounts are there and if you see his, then just delete it and that
should fix it.

steve

"Claudia" <Claudia@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2353651D-F171-4268-8BB6-BB597D903023@microsoft.com...
>I need to know if your program fixes the problem I'm having. I imported my
>3
> identities when I installed Vista, but then all my husband's email
> downloaded
> into the inbox with mine. I tried deleting his identity from my computer
> (he
> has his own computer) by deleting the folders with his name on it and
> deleting the "imported identity" but this morning I opened my mail and
> there
> was another email for him!
>
> Will your program allow my "identity" to get just my email? Is there some
> setting I'm missing in Windows mail to make this happen?
>
> "Steve Cochran" wrote:
>
>> Microsoft removed the very useful Identities feature from OE when it
>> changed
>> it to Windows Mail.
>>
>> I've written a program that mimics this feature Windows Mail. This
>> allows
>> the user to impersonate different users and maintain segregated settings
>> and
>> message stores for each Identity within a given Windows user logon space.
>>
>> This Identities capability can allow for a single user to have multiple
>> settings, or multiple users can maintain separate settings and message
>> stores within a single user space. (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.)
>>
>> For a screen shot and a description of its features, see
>> http://www.oehelp.com/WMIDs/Default.aspx
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> Stephen L. Cochran, Ph.D.
>>
>> MS-MVP
>>
>>