Vista Tutorial - Outlook Express Identities -> Windows Mail

I'm in the process of setting up a new PC with Vista which comes with Windows
Mail, which I believe is a replacement for Outlook Express. It appears that
MS had done away with Identities within Window Mail. So, how can I easily
switch between multiple email accounts from within a single user account,
like Identities used to allow, in particular I want to be able to keep the
mail from several email accounts separated but don't want to create a user
account for each of them?

Hello azb,

You might consider the program WMIDs. It adds the Identities feature to Windows Mail.

WMIDs

Hope this helps,
Shawn

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:

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)


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