Hi Paul, and All, Another way of selecting your email address, if you have more than one, of course, is what I do, and it is when in the edit field, hold down shift and press the tab key until you come to the, from, field and arrow to the required, from, address. All the best, Tony Sweeney. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lists" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 8:32 AM Subject: [vip_students] Re: Configuring Eircom to Open Existing Hotmail Account > Hi Paul, > > First question, I believe that in order for you to have you're hotmail > emails come into a client such as outlook express you have to pay for that > service. In the past it was free but with Microsoft, not much is free > anymore. > > Second question, If you have more than one email account which you want to > have set up in Outlook Express t then you set up each of the email accounts > as you would normally. If you then wish to use one of the particular email > addresses when sending an email for example you would first write up the > email and then when you are going to send it you would go into the tools > menu, send and receive and hit enter on one of the email accounts listed in > there which should correspond to any email accounts you previously set up on > your computer, this will then send out the email to the person in the > address field "under the email address of the account which you choose to > send it out from". If you have more than one person using the email program > such as outlook express and you wish to have it so that whichever person > wants to check their mails and that their mails are private "not mixed up" > with everyone else's then you have to set up what is called in Outlook > Express as "Identities". This means that if three people: > John, Rita and Claire are using the same outlook express on the same > computer then you would set up a separate identity for each of those users. > When they then access their own identity they will not have any access to > either of the other two persons emails which will be contained within the > other persons personal identity. > > Hope this helps some. > > Paul. > > > >