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Kathy Loughlin - 31 Jul 2008 23:22 GMT

The old windows mail you could go to file, identities, switch identities and
other people in my house could check their email. Now when I go to
idenities, I clicked "import messages", I click "next", and I click "import
identities from a different windows account", I click "next", and it asks
for the user name and password, but when I type in my husbands name and
password it tells me that log in was unsuccessful because it was not
correct. HELP

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Gary VanderMolen - 01 Aug 2008 00:44 GMT

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 fixing that problem:

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

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> The old windows mail you could go to file, identities, switch identities and
> other people in my house could check their email. Now when I go to
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> password it tells me that log in was unsuccessful because it was not
> correct. HELP

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