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perhaps encrypting the user account folder, the folder must be stored on an NTFS drive. For more information about encryption and NTFS security, see 14, Understanding Resource Sharing and NTFS Security.

To access identities, choose File, Identities, and click either Add New Identity or Manage Identities. Select Add New Identity to create a new identity. Otherwise, choose Manage Identities to open the Manage Identities dialog box shown in Figure 7-8 on the next page. If you haven t created any identities, you will only see Main Identity in the Identities list. You can also create a new identity from this dialog box by clicking the New

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Figure 7-8. Use identities when several different people need to use Outlook Express on the same computer but want to share the same Windows XP user account.

button. This option opens the same dialog box as the Add New Identity command, in which you name the identity and optionally provide a password. Note that you should be able to use the Manage Identities dialog box to determine which identity opens as the default when starting Outlook Express. However, no matter what you select here, Outlook Express reopens to the identity it was closed in. This buggy behavior might be fixed in a future update of Outlook Express. When you want to switch identities, click File, Switch Identity, select the new identity, and provide the password if required.

Once you have your accounts configured and Outlook Express is up and running, there are many additional settings you can choose. In this section, configuration items that are easily overlooked but are very helpful and useful will be discussed. You can access all of these features by choosing Tools, Options to open the Outlook Express Options dialog box, and then setting options on its nine tabs.

The General tab of the Options dialog box, shown in Figure 7-9, contains options to configure how e-mail messages are received. These are of special importance:

G Check For New Messages Every. If you want Outlook Express to automati-

cally check for messages, select this option, and enter a time interval. By default, messages are checked every 30 minutes. You can also select Send And Receive Messages At Startup to check for messages as soon as you open Outlook Express. Also, select an option under If My Computer Is Not Connected At This Time so Outlook Express will know whether or not you want it to attempt to make a connection when it s time to check your mail. These settings determine whether Outlook Express automatically attempts to connect and retrieve mail on a periodic basis. This can be beneficial when you re set up at home or at your office, but can be annoying when you re using a portable laptop, and the computer repeatedly attempts to dial a connection when there is no phone line connected to the computer.

The Read tab, shown in Figure 7-10 on the next page, provides these important options for reading mail and news messages:

have not been read appear in a bold type. However, if you are using the Preview pane, the message is marked as read after you preview it for five seconds. This might work well for you, but if you receive a lot of e-mail, you might want the messages to not appear as read until you have actually opened them in the message window. In this case, clear the check box.

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Figure 7-10. Use the Read tab to configure the way messages are read in Outlook Express. G Fonts. If you are having problems reading e-mail messages, click the Fonts

button to change the font or size. In the same manner, Outlook Express supports encoding so that different languages can be displayed. If your messages are not showing up with the correct character set for your default language, set the default language encoding in the Encoding list in the Fonts dialog box. To make this setting your default, click the Set As Default button in this dialog box.