How can I organize incoming email from two accounts?

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I want to set up two different email addresses. I want to use one for my friends and another for business. How and what can I do to accomplish this. Please respond in layman term, I am not a computer guru.

Leo doesn't know obviously

This is so irritating. I was working in Outlook Express and just like how it seperates a pop account from a hotmail account(completely seperate maiboxes WITHOUT RULES OR CHANGE IDENTITY) it was seperating my pop accounts into 10 seperate email boxes with it's own inbox, trash and everything else I dreamed of. Then I deleted all the mailboxes and it went away, now every time I enter a new email account it goes into the same friggin inbox. I don't want to specify a new folder in inbox, a 2 year old can figure that out. I want a completely separate thing(as if you were sharing another person's mailbox in Outlook 2003 with seperate inbox, trash, sent items etc)

can anyone help??!

PS: I love Leo

OK. I think Microsoft disabled it cause they are coming out with windows mail beta. I'm pretty sure after I restarted my machine, that's when is hosed my outlook express cause it was working one minute then not the next.

There are two of us wanting to use one outlook 2002. We are receiving mail on the same pop3 account with two different email addresses. I want the mail for each account to go into there respective inboxes. I have not figured how to make the rules work the way I want the mail to flow. Thanks, Jim

thanks Leo

There's an easy way in Outlook 2007 that might be applicable to earlier versions. What I do is, I create the accounts. Then, I create a data file for each account. Then, I go back into accounts and point each one at it's corresponding data file and create a new inbox folder. That's all there is to it. No rules or anything like that.

Milenko got it right, thanks M.

i can get my live mail but cant get hotmail why not ??

Hotmail has a premium service that you have to pay for to be able to use Outlook with it.

And for Outlook 2002; goto Tools - Rules Wizard - New Rule (Blank one) and choose "Apply this rule after message arrives", "through the specified account", "Move it to specified folder".

You have to click on the specified options and designate a email account and folder for the received emails to be put in.

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