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by casemill

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I've tried to set up outlook so that my wife and I can both start using it. I can't make it work for both of us. I have windows 98 configured for 2 users, I've added accounts to outlook to cover my wife's email preferences. But outlook express won'tconnect with her email account. (which is a subaccount of mine). Anyone else had this problem? Outlook's inadequecy at providing support for multiple users as well as internet explorer has kept us from using those products. I would like to use microsoft for email and internet and keep my wife happy. So far, I've been unsuccessful

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by manojsb

> I would like to use microsoft for email and
> internet and keep my wife happy. So far,
> I've been unsuccessful
er, so far, no one has quite succeeded in keeping their wives happy with a Microsoft product.

Other than that, what version ofOutlook are you using? Outlook 2K, or earlier? If it's Outlook 2000, is in installed in Internet mode, or Corporate? You need Corporate if you want Outlook to work with multiple accounts.

by ashanka

Instead of making a new account as subordinate, make a new main account, since it is configured for 2 users, you wont have problem doing that.

by hooknpawn

I just have a quick observation. You seem to have used the terms Outlook and Outlook Express interchangeably. They are different applications and are not compatible. I didn't understand about the sub account but I have configured separate profiles in Outlook with no difficulty. Even if it turns out that the two applications are compatible, you may find it simpler to choose one over the other.

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