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Thread ID: 41585 2004-01-15 19:54:00 One family email address and multiple logons Gerard P (4509) Press F1
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207728 2004-01-15 19:54:00 Let's say you have a family computer setup with four accounts ... one for each member of the family. Each account has Outlook Express setup so that each family member can send and receive messages, but the family uses only the ONE email address.

The situation arrises whereby one member may logon and receive say 10 emails, but 9 of them are intended for other members of the family. These emails do not however go to the inbox of the other family members.

Is there a way to set it up whereby each account can see all the received emails? Yes! I know that separate email address would be the answer .... but just this time pretend that it's not an option. 		Gerard P (4509)
207729 2004-01-15 20:30:00 as soon as you go "send and recieve" the mail is downloaded to thataccount and no trace is left on the server. lets just pretend you get seperate hotmail and/or yahoo email addresses. now in imagine-land the problem is gone away ;) Megaman (344)
207730 2004-01-15 20:37:00 Or you could actually DO what this person wants... ;-)

Open Outlook Express as the first user, and choose:
-Tools
-Options
Click on the Maintenance tab
Click on OE Store Directory

Note down where it is.
Now, go browse through My Computer and find it, you may have to click:
tools
-folder options
Click the second tab from the left
scroll down and un-hide protected Operating system files and show ALL files/Folders whle you're at it.
That way you should be able to find the folder that contains your emails.

Copy it, and paste it to your C: drive

Now, Open up Outlook Express again (Dont connect to the Internet coz it'll get your emails, you dont want that just yet).

Go back through Tools> Options> Maintenance> And click that little button again to browse where the folder is that contains your email.
Change it to the new one on C: (By default it should be called Outlook Express I think).

Now, go into each of the other user accounts and change where it is stored to the C:\Outlook Express and when you've done the last one, THEN you can connect and receive mail :-)

Let us know how you get on, I can only forsee you running into NTFS permission problems, but I doubt you will.

Hope this helps


Chill. 		Chilling_Silently (228)
207731 2004-01-15 22:44:00 Some ISP's allow you to have up to 5 aliases for one "real" email address so they all go into the one mailbox, which may go some way to solve your problem. I'm not sure whether Outlook Express can only pick out the ones for one particular alias though. Dolby Digital (160)
207732 2004-01-15 23:29:00 Hi Gerard P,

I liked Chilling_Silently's method but if you don't mind redownloading the emails you can let Outlook leave the emails on the email server so that others can download them, you can also tell Outlook that when the email is deleted, it can remove it off the server or remove it after a certain number of days.

To do this in Outlook Express:


At the menu bar go Tools | Accounts | Mail Tab and select your Email account, click properties on the right, select the Advanced Tab and at the bottom is Delivery Method.

You can choose whether to leave the message on the server.


This will have to be done for everyone. Only new messages will be downloaded.


Noel Nosivad 		Noel Nosivad (389)
207733 2004-01-16 07:02:00 Chilling has hit the nail on the head (and hopefully missed his thumb while doing it :D ) That's the best way to do it easily with resorting to e-mail aliases and then using message rules to filter. Odin (227)
207734 2004-01-16 21:02:00 Absolutely spot on!

I didn't run into any problems, but that may be because I made all the accounts administrators while I changed things around.

Thanks very much.

Gerard P 		Gerard P (4509)
207735 2004-01-17 02:03:00 Many thanks from me too ~ now hubby can use his own desktop instead of mine to check the mail. Ashka (4685)
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