Comments interspersed.
Gary VanderMolen
brettskey43 said:
Gary, I have a very similar problem when using 2 accounts, especially with
mail for my wife and I. If she is logged in and using the computer, she can
send and recieve mail w/out difficulty, but when she is logged off and I am
on the system, all her mail comes to my inbox.
It isn't clear to me what you mean by "logged in".
Do you and your wife have separate Windows user logins?
If no one is logged in, all
mail comes to my in-box, despite checking all pop-server and smtp server info
was correctly listed for each of us.
It isn't possible for no one to be logged in or else the computer would be
'locked' and unusable.
Very frustrating, also spell checker
will not work in windows mail, get some kind of error about "cannot find
english dictionary..or something similar..
In the main Windows Mail screen go to Tools, Options, Spelling.
Select English and click on Apply.
I have recently installed windows
office xp, and outlook express is not responding any better than the default
windows mail.
I think you mean Outlook rather than Outlook Express.
Outlook 2002 (part of Office XP) is not fully compatible with Vista, see
http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/vista.htm
Does it mess things up to have 2 mail servers for same
accounts, i/e windows mail AND outlook express???
Having two mail programs complicates things somewhat,
since only one program can be the default mail program.
The default mail program will always handle stuff like any
web page MAILTO links you click on.
Generally speaking, you shouldn't use both programs to
download mail from the same mail account. If you need to
do that, it requires setting both mail programs to leave a copy
of all emails on the server, which can cause other problems.
As an alternative, you could use Windows Mail to check
your wife's mail, and use Outlook to check your mail.
if so which one should I
remove, and how is that done??
If you decide to uninstall Outlook, let me know and I'll provide
specific instructions.
