Shared Mail Store

[Guest]

In OE under XP my wife and I had seperate logins, me as admin, she as a user.
Both logins were set to use the same mail store - under my wifes login
(since she could not access my higher admin account, but I could access hers).

How do I set the same system up in Windows Mail under Vista HP32. I change
the mail store location, it tells me there is an account there and would I
like to swtich to using that, I say yes, it tells me I need to close WM, and
reopen, but when it does it gives a message "Windows Mail was unable to
complete the move to the selected location. Your mail store will not be
moved". The wife was not logged in at the time.

Any idea?
../Andy

 

[Steve Cochran]

Set the destination directory to something outside both your user space and
your wife's user space. Then try to move the location from your user space.
If you get an error, then its a permissions issue and you have to take
control of the directory and set the permissions to all users.

Once you get it moved, then backup the registry keys for your user and boot
to your wife's user space and delete her registry keys that match and then
import yours into her registry. See www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx#wm for
details.

Now the problem here is that your passwords will be differently encrypted
between the two users, so you will be asked each time for your mail
passwords, each time you boot, so you have to compensate for that. But it
can be done.

steve

 

[Guest]

Thanks very much Steve - I managed to import all my message from OE, and it's
now set up correctly. You are right of course, I get asked for mail login
and password each time which is a pain, but manageable till I find a solution
to the encryption problem. I'll go hunting around the forum for an answer to
that, but if you see my note I'd be grateful for a link!

../Andy

 

[Steve Cochran]

The workaround is to have a batch file that copies the particular boot
config oeaccount files to the message store for each user on bootup to that
user.

Here's an example I posted for someone who was trying to share the store
between two OSs on the same computer in a dual boot situation. If you
backup the account files for each user and then run the batch files when
each user logs on, then you won't get prompted for passwords.

<quote>
First backup each .oeaccount file in x86. Then boot to x64 and go to each
account and supply the passwords. Then backup the oeaccount files again
into another directory.

So then you create a batch file as follows

copy c:\x86accts\xx1.oeaccount c:\winmailstore\subdir\xx1.oeaccount /y
copy c:\x86accts\xx2.oeaccount c:\winmailstore\subdir\xx2.oeaccount /y

and use that one when you boot to x86 and then have a comparable one when
booting to x64.

copy c:\x64accts\xx1.oeaccount c:\winmailstore\subdir\xx1.oeaccount /y
copy c:\x64accts\xx2.oeaccount c:\winmailstore\subdir\xx2.oeaccount /y

</quote>

steve