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Thread ID: 38937	2003-10-22 09:02:00	OE and home networking	Lindsay (4765)	Press F1

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185711	2003-10-22 09:02:00	I have three computers on a home network all loaded with WinXP and OE/IE 6.0. I have only the main PC set up to send/receive mail. What I want to acheive is the other machines being able to read the Inbox mail without having to manually import to their mail programs. Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.	Lindsay (4765)
185712	2003-10-22 09:15:00	Hi Lindsay, Welcome to PressF1 This could be interesting, so backup your mail folder before doing this. You're going to want to share the folder (C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Local Data\Microsoft\{Identity here}\Outlook Express\ Or check in Outlook Express, under Tools -Options -Maintenance -Outlook Store Folder for the actual mail folder) Share that and map it on the client PC's Then, change in the OE Store Folder on both clients to point to this mapped network drive and see if that works :-) Cheers Chill.	Chilling_Silently (228)
185713	2003-10-22 09:16:00	Don't know if it would work, but could be worth investigating. On the 2 PC's without the internet mail access, open up their OE. Go tools-options-maintenance-store folder and change the folder to the PC with the internet OE. Just a thought.	Pheonix (280)
185714	2003-10-22 09:17:00	Touche Chill :)	Pheonix (280)
185715	2003-10-23 08:23:00	Thanks for the reply Chill & Pheonix. They were good ideas but both failed when trying to direct the store folder to a network folder. You couldn't click on the "OK" button (greyed out) if you ventured outside the local system.	Lindsay (4765)
185716	2003-10-23 08:35:00	Pointing out probably the easiest solution: In OE on all machines: Tools --> Accounts --> Properties (of appropriate account) --> Advanced Tab. Put a tick next to "leave a copy of messages" on server and then specify a number of days. Once a machine has checked the mail, the other computers will have X number of days to download the messages before they are removed. Bear in mind if you are receiving stacks of e-mail this may put your mailbox over quota, but this should work fine for most people.	whiskeytangofoxtrot (438)
185717	2003-10-23 09:34:00	You could setup an "offline" folder on each of the client PC's that mirrors the mapped drive... See if that'd work?!!	Chilling_Silently (228)
185718	2003-10-23 09:55:00	Not possible. OE does not support locating the message store on a network share. Use Outlook instead for utilising this feature. Best scenario is using Exchange Server or similar. The gospel according to Bill GATES: In Bill Gates' message about life for recent high school and college graduates, he lists 11 things they did not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a full generation of kids with no concept of reality, and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world. RULE 1 Life is not fair; get used to it. RULE 2 The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself. RULE 3 You will NOT make 40 thousand dollars a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice president with a car phone, until you earn both. RULE 4 If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure. RULE 5 Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity. RULE 6 If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them. RULE 7 Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parents' generation, try 'delousing' the closet in your own room. RULE 8 Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades; they'll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life. RULE 9 Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time. RULE 10 Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs. RULE 11 Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.	Merlin (503)
185719	2003-10-23 10:06:00	I use OE on a network with shared access. The setup is as per WTF's reply (love that moniker). Each machine has its own OE, IE, Mozilla, etc, with the same account settings except for some different mailboxes or alias's and my business domain and addys are only set up on my machine. Works a charm. BTW use Outlook as well but it doesn't like my business addys for some reason (read I stuffed excahnge setup somewhere and haven't sorted it yet, must do because it works better with ACT than OE). Cheers Murray P	Murray P (44)
185720	2003-10-23 10:10:00	You know.. I feel almost sorry for Merlin's Shrink.. You must really be getting your money's worth... And be nice to me Merlin, one day you'll probably end up working for me! ;-)	Chilling_Silently (228)
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