Windows Mail Accounts

[JLaurich]

I converted from Outlook Express to Windows Mail. I have two comcast.net
addresses - my normal one and an alternate address. Both are listed as
accounts in Windows Mail. In Outlook, it used to come up with both
"identities" and allow me to choose which one I wanted to view and require a
passowrd. Now Windows Mail automatically pulls up my "normal" account
without a password and I have no idea how to access my alternate address.
Can I get Windows Mail to work similar to Outlook Express? I want to move
from one address to another and require a password in either case... Unless
I am missing something Windows Mail is not nearly as intuitive as Outlook
Express!

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

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 changing 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

Options 2 & 3 do not use a password for access.
The password protection in OE was cosmetic and easily overridden,
which is why MS did away with it for Windows Mail.