user accounts and e-mail

[Guest]

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I'm brand new to XP. I configured two accounts, one for me, one for my wife.
I have outlook express in both configured to look for our common e-mail but
it doesn't seem to work. They are both configured the same, I receive mail,
she doesn't. If she sends an e-mail to herself (our e-mail address) she gets
it and I don't. What gives here?

 

[peter]

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If you are both using the same Email account the 1st one to access the account
gets the mail.
peter
"cese5" <cese5@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:311E53B5-5A0A-4981-869D-480ED1BAF3B8@microsoft.com...
> I'm brand new to XP. I configured two accounts, one for me, one for my wife.
> I have outlook express in both configured to look for our common e-mail but
> it doesn't seem to work. They are both configured the same, I receive mail,
> she doesn't. If she sends an e-mail to herself (our e-mail address) she gets
> it and I don't. What gives here?

 

[Guest]

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cese5 wrote:
> I'm brand new to XP. I configured two accounts, one for me, one for
> my wife. I have outlook express in both configured to look for our
> common e-mail but it doesn't seem to work. They are both configured
> the same, I receive mail, she doesn't. If she sends an e-mail to
> herself (our e-mail address) she gets it and I don't. What gives
> here?

Courtesy of PA Bear :- Use Message Rules to filter your mail where the
two addresses are aliases for the same mailbox.

E.g., Me@ISP.com and You@ISP.com are aliases for one mailbox. In the
Identity associated with Me@ISP.com, create a Message Rule stating,
"Where To contains You@ISP.com, 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@ISP.com
directing any messages addressed to Me@ISP.com to not be downloaded from
the server.

--
Kath Adams
MS MVP - Windows (IE/OE)