how to set up 2 iMessage account on one mac

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how to set up 2 iMessage account on one mac

My wife and I have each our own imessage account for our own ipad and iphone, but we share th same imac at home.

Every time I receive an imessage, it appears on the mac and when she send one, I have it automatically on my devices ( and it appears that it was sent by me) because my apple ID is the main one registered in our MAC.

How can I set up both imesssage accounr on the mac so that she can choose who is sending the message? Is there a way to have two imessage box open, one for each of us?

Regards

iMac (27-inch, Late 2012), OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Nov 3, 2013 6:27 PM

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Ralph-Johns-UK

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Nov 5, 2013 2:29 PM in response to naniners

Hi,

In Messages you can only have one iMessages account (you can only have one Bonjour account as well)

As an Apple ID is likely to be an email you can add additional emails

However the sync process will then sync any and all iMessages to all devices and this may not be what you want.

10:29 pm Tuesday; November 5, 2013

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 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
 Couple of iPhones and an iPad

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ViShVa

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Nov 5, 2013 2:43 PM in response to naniners

You could, of course, set up an additional user account for her so that her IMessage acccount settings are distinct from yours.

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