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Marty

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Jan 14, 2012, 1:12:08 AM1/14/12
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My wife and I share an e-mail address but I may have to set up a separate
address for her (which would be used infrequently) to satisfy the
requirements of a site we each want to register on.

If it can be avoided, I don't want to screw around with log-ons, passwords
and the like and would like to be passively notified of any mail to the new
address, by which I mean I don't want to have to go somewhere every day just
to find out that there's no mail.

Which leads to my question: can mail to two addresses be downloaded together
and share one set of local folders?



Bruce Hagen

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Jan 14, 2012, 9:18:03 AM1/14/12
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"Marty" <Marty@a.b> wrote in message news:019Qq.1$Bm...@newsfe18.iad...
If you set it up in a separate identity, you will have to go there to
check for mail. You can set it up in the same identity they you are using
now and it will share the Inbox. But, you might consider setting up a
second user created Inbox for this account to separate the messages.

First, create a local folder to be used as a second Inbox and name it
anything you want. Use this for one of the accounts, and the default
Inbox for the other.

Then create a message rule.

Where the message is from the specified account.
Move it to the specified folder & Stop processing more rules.
Click on: Specified Account and enter the account name for the second
Inbox.
Click on: Specified Folder and select the folder you created.
Name the rule.

Move this rule to the top of the rules list and the incoming messages will
be separated into their respective folders.

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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Oct. 1, 2004 ~ Sept. 30, 2010
Imperial Beach, CA

Marty

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Jan 14, 2012, 5:25:01 PM1/14/12
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Bruce,

I know how to set up a folder and make a message rule but haven't a clue how
to establish a second address within the same identity. I've looked on Help
and Tools to no avail.

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Bruce Hagen

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Jan 14, 2012, 5:39:14 PM1/14/12
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"Marty" <Marty@a.b> wrote in message
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> Bruce,
>
> I know how to set up a folder and make a message rule but haven't a clue
> how to establish a second address within the same identity. I've looked
> on Help and Tools to no avail.
>


Tools | Accounts | Add | E-mail Account and follow the prompts.

mac

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Jan 14, 2012, 7:52:22 PM1/14/12
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"Marty" <Marty@a.b> wrote in message news:7hnQq.3812$UT4...@newsfe03.iad...
> Bruce,
>
> I know how to set up a folder and make a message rule but haven't a clue
> how to establish a second address within the same identity. I've looked on
> Help and Tools to no avail.

Marty, get her a gmail account.

https://accounts.google.com/SignUp

Set it up with the following links.

http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=76147

http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=13273

mac



Don Phillipson

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Jan 15, 2012, 5:45:16 PM1/15/12
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> "Bruce Hagen" <B...@nospam.invalid> wrote in message
> news:jes2qe$lb3$1...@dont-email.me...

> Tools | Accounts | Add | E-mail Account and follow the prompts.

>> "Marty" <Marty@a.b> wrote in message news:019Qq.1$Bm...@newsfe18.iad...
>>> My wife and I share an e-mail address but I may have to set up a
>>> separate
>>> address for her (which would be used infrequently) to satisfy the
>>> requirements of a site we each want to register on.

> I know how to set up a folder and make a message rule but haven't a clue
> how to establish a second address within the same identity. I've looked on
> Help and Tools to no avail.

A "a second address within the same identity" is pointing in the wrong
direction. What OE does is simply recognize addressees. So you
can configure as many email accounts (addressees) as you like
(for one or both Windows users).

Tools / Accounts / Mail / SELECT ONE / Properties / General
has a checkbox to activate the address, i.e. make OE download its email.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)


Marty

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Jan 17, 2012, 11:58:16 AM1/17/12
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Guys, I'm ready to go but am confused by the three replies. Bruce's
instructions seem easy enough and Mac advises a Gmail account integrated
with OE. I'm not sure I understand Don's message. As I mentioned in my
original post, my #1 objective is to have the mail for the 2nd address
download at the same time as my 1st does. I do not want to have to do
something to go somewhere just to see if there is mail for the 2nd address.

Let's assume that objective is met either with Gmail or the 2nd address with
my ISP. Either way, when a new mail is initiated what would tell OE which
"From" address to use? Also, in his 1st reply, Bruce said I could set up a
message rule to put mail for the 2nd address into its own folder and to then
stop processing more rules. Does that mean I could no longer use my existing
rules (which isn't a big deal) which dump certain "From" addresses and
certain Subject words into the Deleted items folder?

Sorry to be such a pest.

(It sucks to be computer-illiterate).

Bruce wrote:

Tools | Accounts | Add | E-mail Account and follow the prompts.

Bruce Hagen

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Jan 17, 2012, 12:33:14 PM1/17/12
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"Marty" <Marty@a.b> wrote in message
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I am currently using Thunderbird, but did use OE and set it up like this.
My ISP allows up to 7 addresses, I have three. Each go to their respective
Inboxes, (two created by me).

Regarding Stop processing more rules................

In general:

Have all rules that Delete it from server first.

Rules that divert mail to folders next.

All others last.

Make sure that every rule also has Stop processing more rules checked,
unless that option is grayed out. The reason for this is so rules don't
interfere with each other. It doesn't stop the other rules from working.

mac

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Jan 17, 2012, 3:58:19 PM1/17/12
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"Marty" <Marty@a.b> wrote in message
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<SNIP>
> Let's assume that objective is met either with Gmail or the 2nd address
> with my ISP. Either way, when a new mail is initiated what would tell OE
> which "From" address to use?
<SNIP>

OE will reply using the email address that the message was sent to.
With a new mail, the 'From' line has a drop down arrow to the right end, so
that you can use an email address other than the default one.

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Regards Steve.
EX-MS-MVP. MAIL. [DTS] UK.

Marty

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Jan 17, 2012, 3:59:51 PM1/17/12
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OK, I set up the address and had some server problems which were resolved by
my ISP's tech support. Everything's working, including the new folder and
message rule. I just have one question over an extremely trivial matter. Is
there a way to change the sequence in which the local folders are listed on
the left? I do notice that the five folders that I have set up are at the
bottom of the list, under the fixed folders that come with OE.


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Bruce Hagen

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Jan 17, 2012, 4:35:58 PM1/17/12
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"Marty" <Marty@a.b> wrote in message
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> OK, I set up the address and had some server problems which were
> resolved by my ISP's tech support. Everything's working, including the
> new folder and message rule. I just have one question over an extremely
> trivial matter. Is there a way to change the sequence in which the local
> folders are listed on the left? I do notice that the five folders that I
> have set up are at the bottom of the list, under the fixed folders that
> come with OE.
>


The default OE folders are fixed. The user created ones will be in alpha
order below them. The only way to move user created folders around among
themselves is to rename them. Possibly put a number in front like 1-My
Inbox, 2-Friends. That would put the My Inbox above the Friends folder.

Marty

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Jan 17, 2012, 5:27:56 PM1/17/12
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Thanks for all the help, it's much appreciated.


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Marty

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Jan 17, 2012, 5:30:28 PM1/17/12
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I noticed that option to choose the "From" name when I first tried sending a
new message. I guess it wasn't necessary to ask the question.

Cheers.

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Bruce Hagen

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Jan 17, 2012, 7:31:53 PM1/17/12
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"Marty" <Marty@a.b> wrote in message
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> Thanks for all the help, it's much appreciated.


You're welcome.

mac

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Jan 17, 2012, 7:39:45 PM1/17/12
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"Marty" <Marty@a.b> wrote in message
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> Thanks for all the help, it's much appreciated.

Come back soon please Marty, we are short of work :-)

mac


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Regards Steve.
Ex-MS-MVP. MAIL. [DTS] UK.


oldchadders

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Jan 23, 2012, 10:00:33 AM1/23/12
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I have at least half a dozen different email adresses set up as seperate
"accounts" within one identity in OE. Appropriate message rules, monitoring
either the "from" or "to" address or the subject send them to the relevant
local folders.
HTH Pete
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