Vista - user accounts

Hi folks,

I'm trying to use the account function where you supposedly can set up your
home account and then your work account in Windows Mail. Having done away
with identities, you have to use tools->accounts to set them up. I have two
accounts set up, one is me, the other is support, but I can't seem to find
out how to switch between them. When I set them to be the default account,
each in its turn it merged all the messages in my inbox view.

Any Ideas?


Thanks, Ernie

Hi Ernie,

You might consider using the free Windows Live Mail instead. It will have a separate set of Mailbox folders per account. Plus, It supports Pop3, IMAP, HTTP website (EX: Hotmail) email, and is a lot more stable. Plus, WLM will minimize to a tray bar icon, and checks spelling as you type messages. WLM will automatically import Windows Mail messages, accounts, and settings into it. Contacts will have to be manually imported from within WLM. (Tools, Contacts, File, Import, Address book for current Windows User.) To see the Menu bar, press ALT+M and check "Show all menus".

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Hope this helps you,
Shawn

You can use Message rules to segregate the incoming messages from different
accounts (see http://www.mindspring.com/~oe_oh/ and the sections on message
rules). Also I wrote a replacement for the Identities feature that allows
one to segregate the message stores between accounts. See
www.oehelp.com/WMIDs/

steve

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