This worked perfectly for years, we use Windows Mail, I got my email and my wife got her email. Then a few weeks ago, my wife's email started coming to whichever of us read our email first.
I have a bootable copy of my system from the time when it worked OK, and when I boot from that, we still each get our own email. But not when I boot from my main disk. The copy is too old to restore from.
I have compared, between the machine as booted from the main and backup disks, the Windows Mail settings for the email accounts and for message rules, and I can see no differences. Yet the email behaves differently. Can anyone suggest where else to look?
I think I finally found the difference between my mail settings and those on my backup boot system, when I compared the contents of C:\Users\...\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Mail\Local Folders where details of each email account is stored in a separate text file with extension .oeaccount The difference is simple, but baffling as to why it should have such an effect.
I found that the field "POP3_User_name" was different for "My Account". I almost certainly retyped this on my main system during the recent (and continuing) intermittent unavailability of these Orange servers, and I typed it in the form: surname.freeserve.co.uk However on my backup, it was of the form: me@surname.freeserve.co.uk (which would be considered an error in most circumstances), and on changing it to match on my main system, things are back in working order, ie. in my Vista login profile, I receive only email to me@surname.freeserve.co.uk and not email to wife@surname.freeserve.co.uk
On checking the Orange webpages on setting up multiple email accounts, I find that this is indeed what they recommend, but matters are not helped by the Orange pages referring to this field as the "Account name", while Windows Mail (on Accounts/Properties/Servers) calls it the (incoming) "E-mail username". The Orange pages could also be criticised for not drawing explicit attention to the difference between how this field is filled out for the Orange Admin Account, on the one hand — surname.freeserve.co.uk — and for individual accounts on the other hand — me@surname.freeserve.co.uk , wife@surname.freeserve.co.uk, etc.
Baffling, as I say, but it's a possible cause should anyone else find email to separate accounts getting mixed together.
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