Great explanation Barry. I added this to the Glossary section on the Entourage Help Page. One other term that often gets confused with Identity is User.
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/glossary/identity_user.html> -- Diane > From: Barry Wainwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 21:23:46 +0100 > To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Identities and Accounts [Was: Re: Is there an Account limit?] > > On 29/8/04 4:27 am, "Mike Seiden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> What is an identity? > > An identity is a complete personality of entourage, containing mail > messages, contacts notes etc that is completely separate from other > identities you create. Using identities, you can keep your work mail > completely segregated from you home mail, for example, or your partner can > have their own mail & calendar in entourage without having distinct log-ins > on the same computer. > >> What is the definition of account? > > Each identity can have (almost) any number of accounts. Each account is > associated with a distinct email address than can be used to send and/or > receive mail, but all mail is stored in the same database, all calendar > events are common to all the accounts, all notes & contacts are shared. > > HTH! > > > -- > Barry Wainwright > Microsoft MVP (see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details) > Seen the All-New Entourage Help Pages? - Check them out: > <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/> > > > -- > To unsubscribe: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > archives: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> > old-archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/> > -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
