Re: Managing multiple identities on home wireless network

Thanks Kath - that partially answers my problem. I tried the don't download
route, but thought I only needed to put the alias bit as the name to exclude
- i.e'Robert' on Margaret's machine. Now going to try
'Robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' the full address assuming that is more likely
to work.
I presume the way it works is that OE6 deletes the message after the first
download ? That will still give me a problem when I hook up the laptop, as
I want to see any messages which are still in my inbox on my PC - and will
also need to file messages received on the laptop in folders on the PC. I
think I need to allow file sharing of OE6 local folders over the network, or
something like that - am I trying to do the impossible ?
Bob

"Kath Adams" wrote:

Bob wrote:
Just putting together a 3 station (2 PC's, 1 laptop) wireless
network, all using a single broadband connection. Main PC for me,
second PC for my wife, and laptop for either of us.
Problem is that for OE6 I have set up two accounts, one for me (Bob)
and another for my wife (Margaret). I then deleted her account
(Margaret@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)from my PC, leaving only mine
(Robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
On her PC, I did the opposite, leaving one account - hers.
Doesn't work - I still get Emails for both of us - and she seems to
get a random selection, mostly mine ! By the way, 90% of the time my
machine is the only one in use.
So far I've not tried to connect the laptop, as I want to iron out the
system on the 2 PC's first.
What am I doing wrong ?


Courtesy of PA Bear - Use Message Rules to filter your mail where the
two addresses are aliases for the same mailbox. (As they will be if
you're with Freeserve as I am.)

E.g., Me@xxxxxxx and You@xxxxxxx are aliases for one mailbox. In the
Identity associated with Me@xxxxxxx, on YOUR machine, create a Message
Rule stating, "Where To contains You@xxxxxxx, Do not download it from
the server and Stop processing more rules" (The last phrase is
important!) and place this rule at the very top of the list.

Then create a similar rule for the Identity associated with You@xxxxxxx,
on your WIFE's machine, directing any messages addressed to Me@xxxxxxx
to not be downloaded from the server.

All should then be well.
--
Kath Adams
MS MVP - Windows (Outlook Express)



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