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

You have two accounts, not two identities. Create a separate Inbox for the
second account.

First, create a local folder to be used as a second Inbox and name it
anything you want. (Inbox-2)? 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.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"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

"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.

If your email addresses are all "aliases" for one mailbox, you'll still need
Message Rules when using separate Identities.

Most families (an intentionally all-encompassing term) will have one Mail
Account with their one ISP subscription ($$/month for all). Most ISPs
provide you with multiple Addresses for the Mail Account (e.g., ,
, etc.) but all of them "point" to the one mailbox. As such,
each Identity will need to use Message Rules so that only mail addressed to
them is downloaded into their Inbox.

The following refers to two addresses, but you should be able to follow it
and amend for three or more.

and are aliases for one Mail Account (mailbox). In
the Identity associated with , create a Message Rule stating,
"Where To or CC contains , Do not download it from the server"
and place this rule at the very top of the list.

Then create a similar rule for the Identity associated with
directing any messages addressed to not to be downloaded from the
server.

Also see MVP Tom Koch's fine pages on using Rules:

Message Rules Tips
http://www.insideoe.com/tips/rules.htm

Why doesn't my rule work?
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/why.htm#rules
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/


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