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How to Set Up Multiple E-Mail Accounts with Internet Mail

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Article Last Modified on 6/24/2004

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SUMMARY

This article describes how to set up multiple e-mail accounts and separate address books in Internet Mail.

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To set up multiple e-mail accounts and separate address books in Internet Mail, follow these steps:

  1. Enable user profiles. If you have already enabled user profiles, skip to step 2.
    1. Click Start, point to Settings, click Control Panel, and then double-click Passwords.
    2. Click the User Profiles tab, and then click "Users can customize their preferences and desktop settings. Windows switches to your personal settings whenever you log in."
    3. Click OK. When you are prompted to restart the computer, do so.
    4. When you are prompted "You have not logged on at this computer before. Would you like this computer to retain your individual settings for use when you log on here in the future?" click Yes.
  2. If Internet Mail has not been installed, install it now. For information about obtaining Internet Mail and News, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

    154457 Availability of Microsoft Internet Mail and News
  3. Start Internet Mail, configure it for the current user, and then quit Internet Mail. For information about configuring Internet Mail, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

    153845 How to Configure Microsoft Internet Mail for Windows 95
  4. Click the Start button, click Shut Down, click "Close all programs and log on as a different user," click Yes, and then log on a different user.
  5. Start Internet Mail, configure it for the current user, and then quit Internet Mail.
  6. Repeat steps 4-5 for each additional user.
  7. By default, the Windows Address Book used by Internet Mail and News is located in the Windows folder. The Address Book file is named <username>.wab, where <username> is the name with which you log on to Windows 95.

    To change the location of the address book, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

    156828 How to Change the Location of the Address Book

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