Use Outlook Express and Incredimail on same computer

Incredimail on two computers - New!
by PaulineMiles - 25/06/10 08:44

I have installed Incredimail and now my Outlook Express will not work. Can you only use one email account at one time on the same computer???I have incredimail set up on my laptop as well. I tried exporting my local folders from Outlook Express in my big computer to Incredimail on my laptop and BOTH programmes froze. I'm not sure how the local folders get transferred from one computer to another. I tried following the directions given but it failed. I then tried to copy the local folders to my usb stick and that failed. Can you please help me???

It's perfectly possible, generally, to use 2 different e-mail programs for different e-mailaccounts. The only reason why it shouldn't work is that installing the second one damaged the first one. Then reinstall that first one.

It's perfectly possible also to use multiple e-mail addresses in one e-mail program. Nothing special has to be done for that (except setting up the account, of course), although you might like to define a rule to move the mail from different accounts to different in-boxes.

It's not really possible to use two programs for one and the same e-mail address, at least not for RECEIVING mail. You would never know what program a certain mail would come into. You can remedy that by specifying 'leave mail on server' on the program that you want to receive a random selection of mail on and 'delete from server (the default)' on the other mail program, so that would get all mail. If you specify 'leave mail on server' on both, both programs would receive it, until the maximum capacity of your account at the server is reached. From that moment on, you would receive NOTHING and everybody that sends something to you would get an 'emailbox full' error message.


Kees