"cavvet1" wrote in message
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We have two e-mail identities, but all mail goes to my wifes inbox,
even when
it has my address on it


Sounds like your wife checks for e-mail before you do so she gets all
of it because you are sharing the same mailbox. Doesn't matter if you
have 2 identities or 2 accounts defined in Outlook. If all the
accounts defined in your e-mail client point at the same mailbox then
all new mails get yanked from there and show up in your Inbox. Why
not use 2 separate e-mail accounts at whomever is your e-mail
provider? Obviously you are sharing a single mailbox because
different e-mail addresses (yours and your wife's) are getting
delivered to the same mailbox. Some pseudo-email accounts are like
this where the only distinction are *alias* names to the same mailbox;
i.e., you have 2 aliases to one account, not 2 accounts.

Won't your ISP or whomever is your e-mail provider supply you with 2
physically separate e-mail accounts? If not, you will need to use a
rule to separate them when downloaded from the same mailbox based on
the e-mail address in the To or Cc headers. The rule(s) would move
e-mails with your e-mail address in the To/Cc header into your folder
and move e-mails with your wife's e-mail address into a different
folder. Just create the folders you want the mails to get separated
into. However, if anyone uses Bcc to hide the recipients then neither
you or your wife's e-mail address will be anywhere in the headers to
test on; i.e., spam, newsletters, order confirmations, and the like
that don't have you listed in To or Cc (since they aren't used to
specify the recipients, anyway) will slip past your rules and end up
in the Inbox.