After spending a near-eternity with AOL, I’m now using Roadrunner (so Ted Turner still gets my money, one way or another), and trying to get used to the e-mail changes.
For all its faults, AOL did make certain things rather easy and obvious for oblivious folks like me. When my wife logged on, she got her e-mail, when I logged on, I got mine, and we never had to see each other’s messages.
Now that I’m using Outlook, we both get our e-mails in the same folder. How do I fix it so that each of us gets our e-mails separately, and I don’t end up looking at hers (or vice versa).
I KNOW the answer must be obvious, but AOL sapped me of the need to use brain cells when sending or receiving e-mail!
Are you using Outlook, or Outlook Express?
With Outlook, I’m not sure what you can do unless you set up two different Windows users. This has minor drawbacks, like having to restart Windows to change users (not a total reboot, but a re-login). You might not even be aware of this feature since Windows defaults to a single user with no login required, and it just boots up into that user. But if you configure additional users (go to Start->Settings->Control Panel->Users), then when Windows comes up it will prompt you for which user to login. Some programs (mostly Microsoft ones, including Outlook) figure out which user you are logged in as and keep separate configurations for each user. So if you set up separate users, you each configure Outlook to retrieve the messages for the email address you each want.
If you use Outlook Express, the solution is slightly easier. If you go the File menu, there are menu choices that are something like Switch Identity and New Identity. You can create a new identity in Outlook Express, and use Accounts to configure retrieval of email for that identity. You can switch identities from within Outlook Express without having to restart Windows. Much smoother if you have no other reason to establish multiple Windows users.
Outlook is just about as easy to configure Outlook Express. I personally like the more features you get with Outlook but YMMV. To setup a profile in Outlook simply goto Control Panel/Mail and click the Add button. Select Internet Email as the Information Service and fill out the appropriate boxes for server names and user accounts.
Eep. Forgot to say that you just Add another mail profile for each user using the same instructions as my first post.