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| Thread ID: 39206 | 2003-10-30 03:52:00 | How to get 'delegate access' on a simple lan? | Clubvw (4586) | Press F1 |
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| 187830 | 2003-10-30 03:52:00 | I am on a 2 person LAN. Simple peer to peer network where we each have Windows XP and Office XP. My co-worker wanrts me to have delegate access for his email under Outlook. I need to be able to read/send his email etc on his behalf at the same time he is using his own PC. Our LAN is very simple and low-cost. What do we need to buy/install to achieve our objective and what likely costs. Any guidance someone with experience can give will be much appreciated! | Clubvw (4586) | ||
| 187831 | 2003-10-30 07:43:00 | I suppose the easiest way to do this would be to use IMAP on your ISP's side in comparison to POP3. What this does is it keeps all mail on the server and means that both you and your friend can access it at the same time and see new mail. If you want to delete it then it's deleted straight off the server and that's it. The problem with this is as mail is stored on the server (and the nature of IMAP) it can get bandwidth hungry if you often receive emails with large attachments. At the end of the day, this depends on your ISP however as to whether they support IMAP. Otherwise, what you could do is use Outlook XP (not Outlook Express) and then have the Outlook folder on one machine shared across the network (Read/Write access), set up the account on the other machine so that it has the same Outlook Settings for the ISP as the machine sharing the folder, but tell Outlook that it's to use a network share for the mail storage. I'm not too sure how effectively this would work, as Outlook may require manual refreshes before picking up new mail (eg: you receive a mail, your friend has to hit send/receive to pick up the mail even though it's in his folder). Also, this requires that one machine (hosting the shared folder) be on for the other machine to be able to send/receive emails. This could be the solution if you both work reasonably the same hours and requires less bandwidth. CyberChuck |
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| 187832 | 2003-10-30 23:24:00 | Just thinking about this, and wondering what possibilities you have in creating a rule that forwards all emails to your computer's inbox via network? What's the possibility of having local lan email addresses? If someone can explain how that works, e.g. on Linux I get mail from myuser@localhost and was wondering if that can be done on windows? e.g. setup up a localemail@yourcomputer and all mail he receives you create a rule that forwards it onto your address. I know they used Exchange for this type of thing, but without all the MS control is what I'm looking at. Another thing you could look into is remote admin/control which gives you the ability to be on his computer without being near it. Although not a good method. Would look at other methods. |
Kame (312) | ||
| 187833 | 2003-10-31 01:06:00 | How about making a user on your computer with the same name and password? When you log in as the other user, you ought to be able to access the mail. That implies some trust in the workplace, which you probably have. :D | Graham L (2) | ||
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