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hi, have set up two user accounts in xp call them a and b.

i have carefully set up the same email address in both accounts configured
in OE.

when i use account a and send an email to both a and b, it comes back to
account 'a' alright. But it does not come into acount b. should it do so?

thanks for any advice.

ghbt wrote:

> hi, have set up two user accounts in xp call them a and b.
>
> i have carefully set up the same email address in both accounts
> configured in OE.
>
> when i use account a and send an email to both a and b, it comes back
> to account 'a' alright. But it does not come into acount b. should
> it do so?
>
> thanks for any advice.

If it's the same address for each account, it will go to whichever
account checks the mail first. (So, if you are sending/receiving on
account A, it will go only to that account.)
You *could* select "leave a copy of message on server" on the
Advanced tab of the accounts, but it's a pretty sloppy solution (you'd
probably get multiple downloads of the same message in both accounts).
Better to use two separate addresses: either a different provider,
or an 'alias' of the main account (depending upon what your ISP
provides).
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Check with your Provider.

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 09:23:33 GMT
ghbt croaked the following in
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> when i use account a and send an email to both a and b, it comes back to
> account 'a' alright. But it does not come into acount b. should it do so?
>
>

Only if you instruct your e-mail client to leave messages on the server,
otherwise as soon as you read it on account A this will delete it from
the server and it won't be available to download into account B.

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