Where are the e-mail identities?
Wed, 05/09/2007 - 08:03 — Ciprian
Some of our readers e-mailed us asking if we know what happened with the e-mail identities in Windows Mail. In Outlook Express, if multiple people were sharing the same computer, they had the possibility to create different identities to keep their e-mail separate from others.
According to this post, found on the Windows Vista Help pages, the ability to create e‑mail identities has been removed in Windows Mail. Instead, Windows Mail enables you to create separate Windows user accounts for each person who wants to use e‑mail on a single computer.
Basically, if multiple people use the same computer they should have different user accounts. This way they can keep both their e-mail and their data private. If you need to learn how to manage and create user accounts, you should read this guide.
Also, if you want to learn more about Windows Mail you can read this tutorial.
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Comments
first off OUTLOOK and
first off OUTLOOK and OUTLOOK express are NOT the same client .. OUTLOOK is part of Microsoft office .. Windows Mail included in vist has the same functionality as outlook EXPRESS .. if you want OUTLOOK then go buy MS office
This is an Upgrade??
I have to add to the chorus of new Vista users who are very disappointed with MS.
I like many others need to have separate email accounts to keep tabs on different things.
Why take things away? Why does every upgrade mean that things get more complicated, more difficult and more limited? At the very least MS don't pee off those users you want to ween off your older software platforms.
Windows Mail
Add me to the chorus, I used oulook express for the families three seperate e-mail accounts, we loved the ease of use with identities, I do not want to spend hours setting up three seperate identities on my new computer, I started and it turned out to be much more complicated than I thought, not to set it up but to have set up and work the way I want. Also as stated faster to switch identity than to log on log off user---what a piece of stuff, hope they fix it, I have not really had any issues with Vista other than this, don't know why they did away with file options.
How much time does everyone have to wast because software designers seem to think they have to come up with better ways for things to work with each new edition--when the old did everything we want and worked fine.