MS Outlook - Accounts/Identities Difference?

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In Microsoft Outlook Express, what's the difference between Accounts and Identities?
I'm new to Outlook. I'm trying to set it up for many different "people"  - myself as a GMail user, myself as a web site administrator and other personal accounts associated with the site, and myself at another professional web site and all other accounts associated with the site.
For example Me@ MyProSite.com & Info@MyProSite.com.
I think I want... I don't know... 3 accounts? Each with "sub" accounts that I can send and receive with the correct name.
If I get a mail addressed to Info@MyProSite.com I want to send a reply from Info@MyProSite.com.

I hope I'm asking the right question.

Any thoughts on this?

Thank You

Andrei · Accepted Answer

The account is related to the email account, that is: 2 email addresses -> 2 accounts.
Identity - who do you want to be, your personal "appearance".
You can find these words in Outlook's help ;)

What you need is 3 ACCOUNTS, one for each email address.
If you receive an email on one account and click "Reply", the reply message will be sent from the address that was sent to. You can also select the account from which you want the email to be sent - top most dropdown list on message ("From").
Each account can be set up independently (email, your name, etc.).

"Send/Receive" is done for all accounts. More precisely, the receiving is for all accounts, and sending is for all accounts too if you use the Outbox otherwise the sending is immediately.

Ganesh · Answer

Identities are like working on two different logins.

and

Accounts are creating two accounts for a single user, means all the mails for both the accounts will land on the same mailbox.

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