Multiple Accounts with multiple identities

I have four XP Home SP2 user accounts and four identities.  I have set up all 
four identities in each user account so that I can check all identities for 
mail irrespective of user logon.  

My problem is that the mailboxes for the identities do not synchronize 
across user accounts.  The result is that an item in a mailbox for account A 
& identity B does not show in account B for identity B.

How do I correct this? 

The whole purpose of identities is to keep things like mail
synchronization separate between accounts.  If you want the
same email then use one identity not four.

Only workaround is to alter the settings for the accounts in each instance 
in OE under Tools/Accounts/Mail tab for the mail accounts involved, then on 
the Advanced tab, check to leave a copy on the server (but delete after a 
few days to avoid filling your Inbox at the ISP).  Then each identity in 
each user account can download their own mail when logged on (within the 
time limit you set until the messages are deleted).
-- 
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
Please reply to newsgroup only.

 http://www.**--****.com/ #xp_oe_share
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Ron Sommer

|| I have four XP Home SP2 user accounts and four identities.  I have
|| set up all four identities in each user account so that I can check
|| all identities for mail irrespective of user logon.
||
|| My problem is that the mailboxes for the identities do not
|| synchronize across user accounts.  The result is that an item in a
|| mailbox for account A & identity B does not show in account B for
|| identity B.
||
|| How do I correct this?

Can I ask what the purpose of separate log-ins is if they all check the same 
email accounts?

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Interim Systems and Management Accounting
Gordon Burgess-Parker
Director
www.gbpcomputing.co.uk 

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We have four members in our family and we like to have the independence of 
our own e-mail addresses but  don't mind seeing each others e-mails.  We have 
fairly easy going, open relationships and if anything looks like it might be 
private we respect that.  Might sounbd bizare to others but it works for us.

Sid

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||||| I have four XP Home SP2 user accounts and four identities.  I have
||||| set up all four identities in each user account so that I can
||||| check all identities for mail irrespective of user logon.
|||||
||||| My problem is that the mailboxes for the identities do not
||||| synchronize across user accounts.  The result is that an item in a
||||| mailbox for account A & identity B does not show in account B for
||||| identity B.
|||||
||||| How do I correct this?
|||
||| Can I ask what the purpose of separate log-ins is if they all check
||| the same email accounts?
|||
||| --
||| Interim Systems and Management Accounting
||| Gordon Burgess-Parker
||| Director
||| www.gbpcomputing.co.uk
|||
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||
|| We have four members in our family and we like to have the
|| independence of our own e-mail addresses but  don't mind seeing each
|| others e-mails.  We have fairly easy going, open relationships and
|| if anything looks like it might be private we respect that.  Might
|| sounbd bizare to others but it works for us.
||
|| Sid

Then with respect, I think you are over-complicating matters for no purpose. 
Why not just have either one log-in and four identities, or four log-ins 
with one identity (the main one) on each log-in?

-- 
Interim Systems and Management Accounting
Gordon Burgess-Parker
Director
www.gbpcomputing.co.uk 

Thanks Jim.  That seems a bit of a messy workaround.  I was hoping to be able 
to change some settings and leave it be.  Our previous PC Windows 98SE O/S 
worked with multiple identities and multiple desktops.

Is this a backwards step for microsoft?

Sid
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No, it's been that way for some time.  It's not much work and can make 
things a lot easier for what you want.  Your choice.
-- 
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
Please reply to newsgroup only.

You call each user having their own Identity rather than sharing an 
Identity, a step backward?
-- 
Ron Sommer

No, what I'm saying is that I am frustrated that functionality available in 
Win98 is not available in XP.  Previously we had automatic synchronization 
across four desktops/identities and now we do not have that functionality.

Thanks for the link to a possibl;e solution.  I'm a little nervous about 
altering the registry and would like to look for another solution or learn to 
with it.  If I can't live with it, I might give it a try.

Regards.

Sid

What you had in Win98 was not functionality.  That was a lack of
functionality -- at least for most people.

WinNT/2K/XP is completely different from Win9x in its approach
to users, groups, file and folder security, email etc.  Bottom line is,
if you want four people to share something as basic as email
synchronization, they should be using the same identity.

Thanks Gordon, I appreciate your concern, however we are a family not an 
offcie environment and we like to have our customised desktops when we are 
working.  Hope this explains where I'm coming from.

Regards.

Sid 

Sid,

Mail for each identity is stored in the profile of the 
current logon. C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Local 
Settings\Application Data\Identities\{SOME-LONG-HEX-NUMBER-
HERE-FOR-EACH-IDENDITY}\Microsoft\Outlook Express

You will have six{*filter*} different folders

username1 - Identity1, Identity2, Identity3, Identity4
username2 - Identity1, Identity2, Identity3, Identity4
username3 - Identity1, Identity2, Identity3, Identity4
username4 - Identity1, Identity2, Identity3, Identity4

Open OE under each username logon, swith to each identity 
and write down the store folder of each. You can find it 
under Tools menu-Options menu-Maintenance tab-Store Folder 
button.

Create a folder for each username
C:\OutlookExpress\username1\
C:\OutlookExpress\username2\
C:\OutlookExpress\username3\
C:\OutlookExpress\username4\

Make sure all users can read and write to these folders.
You will need to choose which identity has the seed info 
for the user you want to copy and which identities you 
will need to export the messages. 

If you would like to merge all the stored messages, I 
would export the messages from the identities, which do 
not correspond to the current logon and save them in 
separate folders:
C:\OutlookExpress\username1\ExportMessages\username2\
C:\OutlookExpress\username1\ExportMessages\username3\
C:\OutlookExpress\username1\ExportMessages\username4\
C:\OutlookExpress\username2\ExportMessages\username1\
C:\OutlookExpress\username2\ExportMessages\username3\
C:\OutlookExpress\username2\ExportMessages\username4\
C:\OutlookExpress\username3\ExportMessages\username1\
C:\OutlookExpress\username3\ExportMessages\username2\
C:\OutlookExpress\username3\ExportMessages\username4\
C:\OutlookExpress\username4\ExportMessages\username1\ 
C:\OutlookExpress\username4\ExportMessages\username2\ 
C:\OutlookExpress\username4\ExportMessages\username3\

You will need to copy the files under each identity which 
corresponds to same logon username C:\Documents and 
Settings\%USERNAME%\Local Settings\Application 
Data\Identities\{SOME-LONG-HEX-NUMBER-HERE-FOR-EACH-
IDENDITY}\Microsoft\Outlook Express\ folder to its 
corresponding C:\OutlookExpress\username1\ folder.

MAKE A BACKUP OF YOUR EACH TIME REGISTRY BEFORE USING 
REGEDIT.

You will then need to use regedit under each logon and 
modify the following key for each identity to point to the 
corresponding new Store Folder.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\\{SOME-LONG-HEX-NUMBER-HERE-
FOR-EACH-IDENDITY}\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express\5.0
\Store Root

After you have done this you can import the exported 
copies of the messages for each identity.

Roy



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