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Thread ID: 32304 2003-04-15 04:17:00 Sharing E-Mails in Outlook Express Pharoah (3603) Press F1
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135906 2003-04-15 04:17:00 Is it possible to share the e-mails u recieve in Outlook Express? We have seperate accounts on our PC and to check E-mail we have to use the same account so that they are all in one place? Is it possible to check them in one account and be able to see them in another account? Pharoah (3603)
135907 2003-04-15 04:41:00 If you are talking about having different email addresses, it is possible to set up different Identities on Outlook Express for each email address, meaning that the emails that each address/identity receives will be separated.

However (if I am right) you won't be able to check a email that was sent to a particular address on one Identity, from another identity within Outlook Express.

You can set that up by clicking File > Identities > Add New Identities. To log on to a different identity, click on File > Switch Identity...

Hope this is of some help,
cheers,
caffy
caffy (2665)
135908 2003-05-05 06:08:00 Hi Pharoah,
Did you manage to do it? If so please tell, it's driving me potty, I have confused myself totally with accounts, identities and connections. The biggest problem is getting on line from my wife's XP account unless using my connections as it wont accept her; if you get my drift. Help.
jockT (3500)
135909 2003-05-05 06:36:00 jockT there is an excellent Outlook Express information site (http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/) that may be able to help you with your problem. I have not got time to search for you at the moment but you could try putting "identities" into their search engine or you could just browse around there. Susan B (19)
135910 2003-05-08 02:30:00 Thanks SusanB, I have SP1 and have the same problems using Opera. I think it's XP, I get password rejection from one or other of our accounts, depending on which one made the connection to xtra using the wizard. jockT (3500)
135911 2003-05-08 02:42:00 If you know how to do it, this can be really easy to get going:

You'll wanna make a folder on your HDD, something like:
C:\Mail
will do just the trick.

Open your first user, in OE.... Click on
-Tools
-Options
-Maintenance

Now down the bottom, click on Store Folder
Point it to save your mail in C:\Mail

Now, there are no limits here, you can have a different User in XP, or a different Identity within that User, simply logout... and login as User2, then do the same, pointing Outlook Express to the same folder.

If one user has the account setup correctly, Click on:
-Tools
-Accounts

And you can Export the account settings there, then login to the other user and Import the settings.

Congratulations, Both users now share the Email account!

Hope this helps

Cheers


Chilling_Silence
Chilling_Silently (228)
135912 2003-05-08 02:44:00 > Hi Pharoah,
> Did you manage to do it? If so please tell, it's
> driving me potty, I have confused myself totally with
> accounts, identities and connections. The biggest
> problem is getting on line from my wife's XP account
> unless using my connections as it wont accept her; if
> you get my drift. Help.


In Windows XP, you can set a Dial-Up Account to be for 'This User Only' or 'For all Users', You're gonna want to set it to all users :-)
Chilling_Silently (228)
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