Hopefully I can ask this question clearly! If I were to set up two user accounts on XP would Outlook Express share the "inbox" between both accounts? If User1 had an e-mail account set up using OE and left e-mail in the inbox would those same e-mails appear in the inbox when User2 logged in on their own account? Or would OE run like two separate programs in the different user accounts on XP? Sorry if this is not understandable. I have never had more than one account on my XP. I am not familiar with how the user accounts work? Thanks for your time!

what will happen is this, XP account one will have no email address till you set it up with one, if you put more than one email address account in outlook for that xp account both email address will retreive the email and put them both into your inbox when you setup xp account 2 there will be no accounts listed, so you will have setup that account the easiest way to say it, is once you create a new xp account, outlook does not retain the old setting or email address you have to set that up for each account, so each persons account can have their own email showing...so each xp account has whatever email account you setup, but by default every time you set up a new XP account, there is no email address's put in place until you put them there the thing that is nice about xp is that it saves the contacts and mail messages within "documents and setting" then that "user" folder, buried a lil bit in there... do you understand or did i confuse you?

I think you gave me the answer that I was looking for...basically that once both XP accounts are set up with the proper e-mail addresses...Outlook Express will not have any interaction between the two accounts. E-mail left sitting in the Inbox for User1 will not appear when User2 logs in on XP and opens OE? Man...I wish I could be less confusing while I explain this. Thanks Josh for the help! I think based on your reply I will go ahead and set up both accounts and see if it works!

hey no prob. good luck! have you setup outlook express emails before?

Yeah...I have set up OE accounts before...I should be good to go there! Anyway, thanks again!