accessing Outlook Express from 2 machines

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Hi
This is a question from a friend of mine. She has just networked 2 home
computers. Once messages have been downloaded from one machine and stored,
how can she view the messages from another computer?
Thank you.
Regards.
S
 
Sal said:
Hi
This is a question from a friend of mine. She has just networked 2 home
computers. Once messages have been downloaded from one machine and
stored,
how can she view the messages from another computer?
Thank you.
Regards.
S
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There's no real easy way to do this, to the best of my knowledge.

The best you can do is to set one machine to 'leave the message on the
server', so that the second machine will also get a copy and then delete it
from the server.
 
Why couldn't she have each computer with a different email address. I have
a home network with three computers. A laptop and my desktop are in my
name, the second desktop is in my wife's name. If messages had address plus
cc: to other address , would that work? We both have a few similar
newsgroups and do not delete each others non read messages. Maybe not the
same?????
Ross
 
Sal said:
Hi
This is a question from a friend of mine. She has just networked 2 home
computers. Once messages have been downloaded from one machine and
stored,
how can she view the messages from another computer?
Thank you.
Regards.
S
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I assume you mean there is only 1 email address involved.

You can do 1 of 2 things:

1) Import the entire "Outlook Express" folder from one machine to the other.

2) Save each email individually to the other machine or just forward them.

The ultimate answer is simplicity, though. Just use ONE machine to collect
email and not the other.
 
Sal said:
Hi
This is a question from a friend of mine. She has just networked 2 home
computers. Once messages have been downloaded from one machine and
stored,
how can she view the messages from another computer?
Thank you.
Regards.
S
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If the machine where outlook express (main system) is running and storing
locally your mail, is running Win XP Pro , you can setup "Remote desktop
processing" (.rdp) and you will be able from an other machine on your LAN,
kind of client( in XP Pro, Home, Me, 98SE, ..) to visualize the desktop of
your main system and access outlook express as if you were sitted in front
of your main system.

I'm doing that in my home and it's easy.
Castor
 
This is a question from a friend of mine. She has just networked 2 home
computers. Once messages have been downloaded from one machine and stored,
how can she view the messages from another computer?
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Sal,

you already got some very good answers.

Let me just add that she's inviting trouble if she tries that
and doesn't know exactly what she's doing. For example, if she
tries to access the mail files across the network, sooner or
later she'll experience corrupted mail files.

One solution that hasn't been mentioned yet is to use an IMAP4
mail server judiciously.

I personally copy the mail files from one computer to the other
before I myself move from one computer to the other. This works
fine, but it requires a quite high degree of conscientiousness.
I use robocopy for the synchronizing.

Hans-Georg
 
You can't share Outlook or OE files across two PCs without a third party
software solution. The problem is that you can't access the database from
the second computer once it's open on the first one (and vice versa).
Exporting the entire file will of course work, but that seems to defeat the
purpose since you'd have to go to both computers to make this work. While
Remote Desktop will work, that's a pretty extreme way to go about what she
wants to do. I'd suggest you look into a thrid party sharing program
(Frankly, I'm not sure they exist for OE but I used one for a while with
Outlook and it did the trick). Eventually, I just got separate email
addresses as that was a MUCH simpler solution. You can always then forward
the one email address to the other if you want to get all your mail on one
PC - but I don't think you can forward both back and forth to each other so
I don't think forwarding would really solve the sharing problem.

Again, the answer to your problem is a third party softward program that
shares .PST files (for Outlook and whatever it it for OE). Check
www.download.com or www.tucows.com for something.
 
Lorien said:
You can't share Outlook or OE files across two PCs without a third party
software solution. The problem is that you can't access the database from
the second computer once it's open on the first one (and vice versa).
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Sorry but not exactly true. You can copy the entire folder "outlook express"
from one computer to another and just import messages from that copied
folder. In that way you can successfully share OE but there is always the
risk that both OEs have changed and you rub out something somewhere.
 
Sorry but not exactly true. You can copy the entire folder "outlook express"
from one computer to another and just import messages from that copied
folder. In that way you can successfully share OE but there is always the
risk that both OEs have changed and you rub out something somewhere.
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I can confirm that. I do it all the time, at least twice a week.
I use robocopy to synchronize two computers, and that includes
the OE mail database.

Some time ago I tried multiple access to the same mail database
over the network, but that repeatedly led to corruption of the
database, which is very fragile.

Hans-Georg
 
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