pst files on ftp server?

[exciter]

Is it possible to locate pst files on a ftp server such that
outlook 2003 will connect to it and modify it when necessery?

 

[Guest]

I would guess that since Microsoft doesn't even support a PST placed on a
mapped network drive that perhaps an FTP server wouldn't be such a good idea.

Is it possible? Yes. Would it work well? Possibly not and because it's not
supported or recommended, you would have no recourse if anything went wrong
and you didn't keep a good backup.

Outlook needs to have read/write access to the PST which works best when the
PST is kept locally on the PC.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Is it possible to locate pst files on a ftp server such that
outlook 2003 will connect to it and modify it when necessery?

No. Outlook does not contain any code to implement FTP protocols and even
if it did, FTP I/O is file-oriented and can't work internally on a single
file. There's no way Outlook could update the overhead data a PST file
needs to remain internally consistent.