If you have multiple email accounts,perhaps a mixture of business and personal accounts or several different business email accounts how do you access them easily and at the same time keep the emails separated?
There are in fact several possibilities:
- Use different devices for each email account
- Use different email clients.
- Use identities.
- Use different computer login accounts.
- Use a Web Based Client
Use Different Devices for each Email Account
This is the best solution but it is not really practical for most people to use a different computer/laptop for each email account that they access.
However this approach is used by most people who work for a larger organization where the work computer is used only for work and they have a personal computer to use at home.
Use a different Email Client
This is a very good solution if you only have a single machine and is easy to implement. You can install/use multiple email clients on a single machine.
For example you could use thunderbird for business use and outlook live mail for personal use.
If you use desktop based email clients then again you shouldn’t use them on a shared PC and if you do then you need separate login accounts.
Use identities
This used to be a popular way of sharing a computer with multiple users and keeping email separated.
However it isn’t very secure and isn’t really used today and will probably be dropped by most clients.
Windows live mail no longer support identities. For this reason I don’t recommend that you consider it as a solution.
Use Different Computer Accounts
If you share a computer with others then you should always use different computer accounts to login.
However even if you are the only user using the PC you can still use different user accounts e.g a business user account and a personal user account to separate work from personal use.
Email is not shared between different user accounts and so the email accounts are separated.
Use A web Based Client
If you use a web based client (e.g. Gmail) to access the email account then the accounts are separate because they are not stored on the local PC.
This is the only solution that works securely if you share a PC and is recommend for families/ family computers.
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