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Chris & Barbara

I set up my email account in windows mail. No problem. My problem is that I
use two different servers for mail and would like to have two different
inboxes. The original email inbox is under local folders which is fine. For
the second server I want a separate inbox. Is it possible to do this and if
so how?


Thank You
Chris
 
Hi Chris,

No, not with Windows Mail it isn't. What you could do as a workaround is to
set up the second mail account (tools/accounts) and then a filter to move
those emails to a different folder using the mail rules. Tools/Message
Rules/Mail, click new, then 1. "where the message is from the specified
account", 2. "Move it to the specified folder" and
"Stop processing more rules". Then click on the blue specified link and
indicate where you want the messages to go.
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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
You may use Microsoft outlook instead, it will give what you are looking
for, or else you may create a new folder in the local folder tree, then use
message rules from the tools menu to redirect incoming mail that is sent to
a certain email to the new folder.
 
You may use Microsoft outlook instead, it will give what you are looking
for.

Else you may create a new folder in the local folder tree, then use
"Message Rules" from the "Tools" menu and choose the "Where the to line
contains people" from step 1, then choose "Move it to the specified folder"
in step 2, Finally in step 3, just click the hyper links to choose the
applicable choices for name and folder.
 
Chris said:
I set up my email account in windows mail. No problem. My problem is
that I use two different servers for mail and would like to have two
different inboxes. The original email inbox is under local folders
which is fine. For the second server I want a separate inbox. Is it
possible to do this and if so how?

Thank You
Chris
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Easy to do with Thunderbird.

http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/
 
You can have up to 32 email accounts in Windows Mail.
By default, all email from all accounts goes into the same Inbox.
There are four different ways of changing that:

1. Use separate Windows user logins. That gives total privacy, and is
ideal when two different people use the same computer.

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

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

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

No, not with Windows Mail it isn't. What you could do as a workaround is to
set up the second mail account (tools/accounts) and then a filter to move
those emails to a different folder using the mail rules. Tools/Message
Rules/Mail, click new, then 1. "where the message is from the specified
account", 2. "Move it to the specified folder" and
"Stop processing more rules". Then click on the blue specified link and
indicate where you want the messages to go.
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Or install Windows Live Mail, or Thunderbird. Windows Live Mail gives
every account a separate Inbox, Sent, Drafts, etc. No option, that's
the way it works. THunderbird can do it the Windows Mail, or Windows
Live Mail way, configured on a per account basis.
 
Peter Foldes said:
crossposted to the windows.mail newsgroup
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