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RWoods
I have a media center PC in the family room that receives our email. It
downloads (and removes from the server) from two mail providers. (Our local
ISP, which changes if we move; a long-term one that everyone has as our mail
address, which never changes).
I have two client machines (me and my wife) upstairs in the office (on the
same network/domain. Yes, I have a domain controller at home; I'm a geek
what can I say.
)
What I want to do is just check my mail, preferably using Outlook, from any
of the three machines w/o contention issues, and without accidentally
downloading mail to the upstairs office clients' hard drives.
To summarize:
* Machine A, that is the storage location and primary access point for all
our email. Outlook (2007) is usually, but not always running on it.
* Machines B and C, which have copies of Outlook (2007), but do not store
any mail locally (I've configured the same mail server for outgoing, and
garbage data for the incoming mail server so it can't receive mail but can
send it)
Solution requested: How could I read, mark read, delete, etc. mail from
clients B and C (preferably from within Outlook) without having them
actually store the data on their systems? I can't usually remote desktop to
the media center (folks are watching TV on it...) and I can't just connect
to the remote data file from B and C, can I, because I think with Outlook
usually running on A, that would cause issues?
Thanks for any help you can provide!
downloads (and removes from the server) from two mail providers. (Our local
ISP, which changes if we move; a long-term one that everyone has as our mail
address, which never changes).
I have two client machines (me and my wife) upstairs in the office (on the
same network/domain. Yes, I have a domain controller at home; I'm a geek
what can I say.
)What I want to do is just check my mail, preferably using Outlook, from any
of the three machines w/o contention issues, and without accidentally
downloading mail to the upstairs office clients' hard drives.
To summarize:
* Machine A, that is the storage location and primary access point for all
our email. Outlook (2007) is usually, but not always running on it.
* Machines B and C, which have copies of Outlook (2007), but do not store
any mail locally (I've configured the same mail server for outgoing, and
garbage data for the incoming mail server so it can't receive mail but can
send it)
Solution requested: How could I read, mark read, delete, etc. mail from
clients B and C (preferably from within Outlook) without having them
actually store the data on their systems? I can't usually remote desktop to
the media center (folks are watching TV on it...) and I can't just connect
to the remote data file from B and C, can I, because I think with Outlook
usually running on A, that would cause issues?
Thanks for any help you can provide!