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| Thread ID: 33314 | 2003-05-13 08:36:00 | Email available from different machines | lakeryan (706) | Press F1 |
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| 143750 | 2003-05-13 08:36:00 | I have a small home network with 3 machines. Mine is Windows 2000 Server. The other two are XP Home. My wife tends to log on to whichever machine is available. I've mapped shares pointing at her documents and templates on one machine so she can work from any of them relatively invisibly except for her e-mail. She uses Outlook Express which doesn't allow me to move the e-mail file to a network drive so that means she has her downloaded e-mail split across all 3 machines. I looked into setting up a roaming profile but XP Home doesn't appear to support them. She's PC phobic enough without trying to convince her to use something else more sophisticated to read her e-mail. If anyone can suggest a way around this, I'll be very grateful. Perhaps an e-mail client that will support the mail store on a network drive that is very similar to Outlook in interface? I've also thought about writing scripts so that when she logs on, it copies the e-mail file from the network to a local drive and then copies it back again when she logs off but this is a bit beyond my skills and sounds a bit error prone. Or is there a way to fiddle XP Home to allow roaming profiles with a bit of registry manipulation? |
lakeryan (706) | ||
| 143751 | 2003-05-13 09:00:00 | I cheat, and only set one of the home machines to delete emails from the mail server, so they download when I lod into the main machine. You could set it to delete the mail from the server if deleted on either machine... But I would be interested to learn how to set up a roaming profile as well... |
nicnz (2273) | ||
| 143752 | 2003-05-13 09:04:00 | roaming if know how will be good and me for learning too :D u could do this wif outlook. each time using a new pc - u go to file -> import - > from another program and import that PST file u were s=using b4 hand. now the emails should be updated and happy typing...... N |
nomad (3693) | ||
| 143753 | 2003-05-13 09:11:00 | except youd get duplicates of emails very quickly... | nicnz (2273) | ||
| 143754 | 2003-05-13 09:16:00 | no u can specify: "do not import duplicates" OR replace duplicates with items imported this will however: allow duplicates to be created |
nomad (3693) | ||
| 143755 | 2003-05-13 09:17:00 | OE6, go tools=options=maintenance and click on store folder button. Direct it to where you want, maybe on the server. | Pheonix (280) | ||
| 143756 | 2003-05-13 09:20:00 | That's the problem. It won't allow me to select any drive other than a local one to store the mail file on. If it would, problem solved. | lakeryan (706) | ||
| 143757 | 2003-05-13 09:21:00 | There again. Outlook Express won't read *.pst files. MS Outlook will though and it's why I use it. Stay with the ONE Email client and know how to save the data files and be able to Import these files again when wanted. The original question mentioned Outlook Express. Just my 2 cents worth. :-) |
Elephant (599) | ||
| 143758 | 2003-05-13 09:22:00 | Except it is starting to sound a bit technical for my wife. She uses Word with difficulty and has me help her every time she wants to insert a table so I think getting her to do import each time would make her give up. However, it is worth considering as I might be able to script that. Cheers, Nick |
lakeryan (706) | ||
| 143759 | 2003-05-13 09:29:00 | Will Outlook read a Hotmail account? | lakeryan (706) | ||
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