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setting up separate broadband connection/outlook express acc

Jan 15, 2008 4:45AM PST

Here we go again, thanks to a failure of my hard drive I fin myself having to reinstall all the programmes (i know a good chance to dump those never used or wasting space!!) that done, my slight problem is that my computer is set up for 2 administrators, self and lady wife. Ok so far, however have set up my own side connection to ISP and outlook express. she requests (demands) that I set her side up as before with access to internet as mine (the user account is in joint names) and her own account at outlook express. I have tried to set her account up but am making novice like mistakes. and have not got her started. I am sure much laughter is resounding through the portals of cnet . All advice welcome. as usual for which, many thanks. Dave

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Dave, I'm not quite sure what you need
Jan 15, 2008 6:01AM PST

You have her account setup, correct?

She has a connection, correct?

What you need is to setup Outlook Express, correct?

What isp do you have? example: aol.com, gmail.com, comcast.net
Do NOT give us your email address. We can go with the anything after the @


If you also need help with the connection please give us the details.


Rick

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setting up outlook express
Jan 15, 2008 7:55PM PST

Many thanks for your swift response. We operate with Tiscali.co.uk. I have tried to set her up but very time I go through the ritual, I find that I have set up a separate ISP account which is not needed. What was originally on our system and functioned well was just , just our normal account davendiana@etc. and then we had our own individual outlook accounts,if that makes sense to you. Thus when Emails were addressed to dave >davendianaetc, it arrived on my "side"!as if by magic!!! Many thanks David

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If you are both using the same user account
Jan 16, 2008 4:49AM PST

and want to share Outlook Express,

OLEXP: How to Use Multiple E-mail Accounts for Multiple Users in Outlook Express

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/171301

I would also consider message rules.

Tools

message rules

Make a message rule.

If you use separate user accounts, you can set each up for one or more email accounts. If you share the same email account, you can tell it to leave message on server.

If using two seperate user accounts, I would have two different email addresses. Set the one up for Dave and the other up for Wife.

Your settings should look like this

http://www.tiscali.co.uk/help/email/oe_settings_start.html

If you have any questions, please be a little more specific as to what you are trying to say. I think you want to have one Outlook Express with two folders, one for Dave and one for wife. If the account is a joint account, then you need to use message rules. If it's 2 different email accounts, Message rules would also play a role.


Rick