How to use accounts?

[Cooper]

In Outlook Express you can set up multiple identities and easily switch back
and forth between them on one computer. I thought this was great. I had an
identity for each of the four members of my family.

I was told I could basically do the same thing inOutlook 2003 (while you
could not on previous versions). I have set up four email "accounts" in
Outlook 2003. I really can't tell how it works and can't find much
assistance in the online help.

It seems different, and not as user friendly as the identites of OE. It
seems when Outlook 2003 goes out to the net it is looking for emails for all
four accounts, when I want it to just go out to mine. That is the point, I
don't want to work with four at once but one at a time, mostly my own.
Occassionally I will have reason to check other persons in my family email,
and they mine, but not often.

I just want it to work like the identities in OE. Is that asking too much?
What am I missing?

 

[Gordon]

In Outlook Express you can set up multiple identities and easily switch back
and forth between them on one computer. I thought this was great. I had an
identity for each of the four members of my family.

I was told I could basically do the same thing inOutlook 2003 (while you
could not on previous versions). I have set up four email "accounts" in
Outlook 2003. I really can't tell how it works and can't find much
assistance in the online help.

It seems different, and not as user friendly as the identites of OE. It
seems when Outlook 2003 goes out to the net it is looking for emails for all
four accounts, when I want it to just go out to mine. That is the point, I
don't want to work with four at once but one at a time, mostly my own.
Occassionally I will have reason to check other persons in my family email,
and they mine, but not often.

I just want it to work like the identities in OE. Is that asking too much?
What am I missing?

Unfortunately you were mis-informed. Outlook uses Profiles, and you have to
close Outlook completely to switch. As you are using Outlook 2003 and thus
presumably Windows XP, why not create a separate Windows log-in for each
member of the family? That will solve your problem at a stroke in that each
user will have a completely separate mail set-up.