Creating two separate accounts

How does one go about creating two separate mac mail accounts? I want it setup where my wife would log on to her account to retrieve her e-mail and mine where I log on and retrieve my e-mail. I've went to the help section and the way it is set-up now is when I open mac mail all e-mails for both of us are there. I have went to the preferences and followed those directions and it doesn't seem to be working correctly. Any answers. I am sure it's simple and I'm just missing something. Thanks. jonmbaird

jonmbaird, Welcome to the discussion area!
If you want to separate @mac.com mail addresses, you will either need to buy an email-only account ($10/year) or another .Mac account ($99/year).
Then, while logged into your OS X account, you can enter your .Mac account information into the .Mac preference pane.
Then, while logged into your wife's OS X account, you can enter her email-only or .Mac account information into the .Mac preference pane.

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