I have Outlook 2003 and have two e-mail accounts and one the "default" account.  Whenever I get e-mail for either account it shows up in the Inbox and not sorted.  No way I know of to sort it out.

Thank you, Fireberd.

 

Not what I wanted to hear, of course, but so be it.

 

Would you--or anyone--happen to know if Outlook 2007 has corrected this inefficiency or not?

 

Squirrelly

I have three accounts on Outlook and they are are all mixed together.  You can set up an email account from hotmail that will remain separate.   You will need to establish an Hotmail account and import it.

Perhaps the simplest solution is to obtain a second email address for the new account? Most ISP's provide an additional email account if you request. THen, when you start Outlook, you can select which account you wish to use.

Hello, Rebel...

 

I set up the second account in Microsoft Outlook 2003 through my ISP.  The techs there don't use MO, so they were surprised to find that mail for both accounts shows up on one page.  They have no idea if this can be remedied or not.

 

The issue is as problematic as it is because I prefer Microsoft Outlook to any of the other email programs I've used or seen and want to be able to use it for both email addresses.

 

Squirrelly

The second email address[not default] is my personal email address which I had for several years on another computer not associated in any way with the one I'm using now.  When we terminated that phoneline and DSL account, my ISP, the same ISP I was using, simply switched the account over to this computer as this computer's second, and, therefore, free, email address.   I did it with them over the phone, and everything worked when we ran the test the setup wizard suggests you run.  This email account we're talking about is my personal address.

 

I also have a laptop at a different location where I "plug" into a friend's wireless network to get online.  On the laptop I installed Thunderbird, and set up my personal address where it ran fine.  Recently I installed MO 2003 on the laptop and moved my personal address out of Thunderbird and into MO 2003.  I haven't yet tried to put a second email address on the MO 2003 on the laptop, but it would be interesting to see if it works differently there. 

 

So, as you can see, what I'm trying to do is first find out if MO 2003 is supposed to switch identities the same way Outlook Express would.  If the answer is yes, then, I can proceed with finding out exactly how to get MO 2003 to behave the way it should.

 

Thanks for all your time,

 

Squirrelly 

 

 

Did they actually give you a second email address, and if so, when you set up the second account, did you specify that particular address? There is no way that mail destined for one address should show up at another address.

This may not work.  I have three different Email addresses that all dump into the Inbox.

Outlook will not "switch identities". If you require 2 different accounts, you must set up 2 different profiles in Outlook - each with different email addresses. Then, when you configure Outlook, you can have Outlook prompt you for which profile you wish to use. If you select "a", then you will load that profile and retrieve any messages sent to "a". If you choose "b", you will load that profile and retreive messages sent to "b". You cannot switch profiles during an active OL session. You must close OL and then restart it to choose another profile.

Re you saying that messages to 3 DIFFERENT email addresses are all sent to 1 address?