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Old 07-31-2008   #1 (permalink)
Kathy Loughlin


 
 

switching identities

The old windows mail you could go to file, identities, switch identities and
other people in my house could check their email. Now when I go to
idenities, I clicked "import messages", I click "next", and I click "import
identities from a different windows account", I click "next", and it asks
for the user name and password, but when I type in my husbands name and
password it tells me that log in was unsuccessful because it was not
correct. HELP


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Old 07-31-2008   #2 (permalink)
Gary VanderMolen


 
 

Re: switching identities

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 fixing that problem:

1. Use separate Windows user logins. That gives total privacy.

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

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

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


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Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)


"Kathy Loughlin" <shamroc@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:uiDiit18IHA.3648@xxxxxx
Quote:

> The old windows mail you could go to file, identities, switch identities and
> other people in my house could check their email. Now when I go to
> idenities, I clicked "import messages", I click "next", and I click "import
> identities from a different windows account", I click "next", and it asks
> for the user name and password, but when I type in my husbands name and
> password it tells me that log in was unsuccessful because it was not
> correct. HELP
>
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