How To Separate Email Accounts in Outlook

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Ron

Hi,

I created two email accounts in Outlook, one for myself
and one for my wife. How do I separate the two so that I
download only my mail and my wife downloads only her mail.
Any help appreciated.

Ron
 
What version of Outlook are you using, and if 98 or 2000, what mail
support mode? If you're not sure, look at the second line of Help |
About Microsoft Outlook -- it should say "Internet Mail Only" or
"Corporate/Workgroup". (Outlook 97, 2002, and 2003 don't have separate
modes.)

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Thanks for the assistance. I have Outlook 2002 SP-2.
Neither mail support mode you mention is listed. Does
this mean I cannot accomplish what I want to?

Ron
 
No; like I said, Outlook 2002 doesn't have separate modes. The separate
mode idea was created for Outlook 98, kept in Outlook 2000, and
abandoned thereafter, but all that really means is that separate modes
weren't a very good idea in the first place :-)

In Outlook 2002, you can create separate mail profiles for each user.
Go to Control Panel | Mail and click the Show Profiles button, then add
profiles as necessary. Assign your mail account to one profile and your
wife's to another. Tell Outlook to prompt for a profile when Outlook is
run, and that way each of you will have separate access to your own
mail, Calendar, Tasks, etc.

For more information on sharing Outlook between users of one PC, look
here:

http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/olshare1.htm

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