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120246 2003-02-11 08:53:00 Hi all, A friend has windows XP & he has it setup so he & his wife have seperate logon accounts.
The Question is,Is it possible to setup outlook express so they can both access the same emails as they both share the same email address?
At present if he downloads the mail using his logon,she can't see it when she logs on with her account & vice versa.

Thanks in advance.
Cheers Steve
Steve Askew (119)
120247 2003-02-11 09:14:00 This has come up so many times and the obvious thing is to have your own email addresses if you are going to have seperate logins otherwise why complicate things, just use the one login.

If you must have seperate logins you could set the mail program to leave mail on the server and set it to remove after xx days to give you both time to receive it.
Jim B (153)
120248 2003-02-12 02:04:00 Thanks Jim. The way you described is the only way i knew of too.
It doesnt affect me on my pc as we only have the 1 logon.

Cheers Steve
Steve Askew (119)
120249 2003-02-12 02:39:00 Try creating a folder on your C:\ Drive called something like
Mailmessages
Open Outlook Express
Hit Tools
-Options
Click on Maintenance
Select Store Folder
In there, put the name of the new folder that you just made.

Do the same for your other login :-)


Cheers


Chilling_Silence
Chilling_Silence (9)
120250 2003-02-12 04:16:00 That is an option for sure but I didn't mention it as unless they are familiar with windows there is a possibility they will end up not being able to receive any mail at all.
I don't see why 2 people who want to see the same email need to have their own logins, surely they can share the other things as well.
Jim B (153)
120251 2003-02-12 04:20:00 > I don't see why 2 people who want to see the same
> email need to have their own logins, surely they can
> share the other things as well.

I use it so that when Im logged and surfing and the parents come in and say "While you're online, check my mail please", I dont have to log out, log in as them, check it, log out, then log back in as me. It can just make life easier :-)
Chilling_Silence (9)
120252 2003-02-12 19:10:00 Thanks for the replys, I will pass the info on to my friends, I'll probly have to go set it up for them too :-)

Cheers Steve
Steve Askew (119)
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