Outlook Answer Book, The: Useful Tips, Tricks, and Hacks for Microsoft Outlook® 2003

Identities

12.7. How Do I Create a New Identity?

Sometimes having multiple Outlook Express identities is helpful. For example, let's say that you have a single Windows logon for your family, but you want to keep each other's Outlook Express information private. Another example is if you want to have multiple identities for a single person so that this person can subscribe to different newsgroups.

Identities are basically like user profiles: Each person can have his or her own Outlook Express identity, protected by a password. As a result, the newsgroups each person reads and the posts each person makes are hidden from public view.

Outlook Express has a default identity called Main Identity. Most people never know this if they do not have a reason ...