setting up separate email accounts in Windows Vista

I would like to set up a separate email account for my spouse in Vista and am
having trouble doing so. Set up one and it is listed as the default. Set up
the second one but can't figure out how to get to it. How do I switch from
one identity to another?

Windows Mail does not have identities like Outlook Express did.
Unless you set up message rules, all email from all accounts goes
into the same Inbox. There are four possible solutions:

1. Give each user their own Windows Users logins. This will give
complete privacy.

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

3. Use 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

--
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP


"fingerlakesgirl" <fingerlakesgirl@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:A0C371B8-6DA5-428B-B6B4-DFEAE6BF77B1@microsoft.com...
>I would like to set up a separate email account for my spouse in Vista and am
> having trouble doing so. Set up one and it is listed as the default. Set up
> the second one but can't figure out how to get to it. How do I switch from
> one identity to another?

"fingerlakesgirl" <fingerlakesgirl@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:A0C371B8-6DA5-428B-B6B4-DFEAE6BF77B1@microsoft.com...
>I would like to set up a separate email account for my spouse in Vista and
>am
> having trouble doing so. Set up one and it is listed as the default. Set
> up
> the second one but can't figure out how to get to it. How do I switch from
> one identity to another?

Five possibilities:

1. Use different Windows Users

2. Make new folders and make a message rule like this:

Apply this rule after the message arrives
Where the message is from the mail.fjsmjs.com account
Move it to the fjsmjs folder
and Stop processing more rules

3. Use Windows Live Mail which has separate folders for each account:
http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview

4. Buy WMIDs http://www.oehelp.com/WMIDs/Default.aspx

5. Enable the Account column in the Inbox.

--
Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM
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