age old problem...

[RJK]

....mainly because I've never had much to do with networking and DNS
addresses, ...I think. It might be less long-winded, (I'm good at "long
winded"), if I briefly outline hardware first !

My PC is upstairs with an external Linksys adsl router/modem, using one LAN
lead.
Dads' PC is downstairs and it has a PCI adsl modem in it. When not in use,
he unplugs the dsl/rj11 lead to his machine, (from the filter plugged into
the 'phone socket just beside it), or my Linksys modem refuses to sync. when
I want to use my PC.

The problem is that when he uses his W98se PC downstairs, he collects my
email ! And when he's waiting for an email, I sometimes get it on my
machine upstairs because I switched my PC on first. ...if you see what I
mean.

I bought a long LAN lead, and haven't drilled a hole through the ceiling yet
because his old PIII 600EB PC with no LAN plug hole on the motherboard will
have to have a LAN card put in it, or a wireless LAN card but, I don't think
the old thing will handle radio very well.

All that aside, the main problem is that we have one Wanadoo ISP account,
used on two separate PC's, and email goes to the first machine that's
switched on.

Any way round this one ?

TIA

regards, Richard

 

[philo]

I bought a long LAN lead, and haven't drilled a hole through the ceiling
yet because his old PIII 600EB PC with no LAN plug hole on the motherboard
will have to have a LAN card put in it, or a wireless LAN card but, I
don't think the old thing will handle radio very well.

All that aside, the main problem is that we have one Wanadoo ISP account,
used on two separate PC's, and email goes to the first machine that's
switched on.

Any way round this one ?

well,
you could put an app such as mail washer on the machines and at least view
the email
before downloading it..
otherwise take out seperate hotmail, yahoo or gmail accounts

 

[George B]

Richard,

I've operated for several years with two computers and one email address.
The trick is if you can use OE's message rules to identify which mail is for
which machine. Each machine has rules to leave the other's mail on the
server and downloads only its own mail

 

[Michael Santovec]

Do you have just one e-mail address at the ISP or 2?

If you have just one e-mail address, then you can have all users/PCs
download all message from a POP3 mail server by selecting Tools,
Accounts, Mail, Properties, Advanced, Leave a copy of messages on the
server in all users/PCs. One or more of the users/PCs should be set to
delete messages from the server after a few days or else the server mail
account will eventually fill. However, Sent messages will only be saved
on the sending user/PC.

If you have 2 e-mail addresses, then see the following:

A Multitude of Multiples: Using Outlook Express with Multiple E-mail
Addresses, Multiple Accounts, and Multiple Identities
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/community/columns/identity.mspx

The way you handle multiple e-mail addresses in Outlook Express (OE)
depends on how the ISP creates them. There are 3 different ways
depending on the ISP:

1) Multiple e-mail addresses feed into a single server POP3 account. In
this case, all users use the same Dial-up Networking connection (DUN)
and same Logon Using in OE at Tools, Accounts, Mail, Properties,
Servers. Each OE account has different settings in Tools, Accounts,
Mail, Properties, General. This is the poorest ISP support. You must
use message rules to not download messages for the other e-mail
addresses. You will be limited on properly separating the mail.

2) Separate server POP3 accounts, single ISP logon. In this case all
users use the same Dial-up Networking connection (DUN) but different
Logon Using in OE at Tools, Accounts, Mail, Properties, Servers and
General. This is the adequate ISP support. Often the first mail
account has the same name and password as DUN. You can use separate
identities (File, Identities) to keep your mail separate (best), or use
Message Rules to sort downloading mail by using "where the message is
from specified account".

3) Separate server POP3 accounts, separate ISP logons. In this case
each user uses a different Dial-up Networking connection (DUN) and
different Logon Using in OE at Tools, Accounts, Mail, Properties,
Servers and General. This is the best ISP support in that it provides
maximum privacy. You should use separate identities (File, Identities)
to keep your mail separate or separate Windows User Logons.

 

[RJK]

Thanks George,

I did fiddle with OE advanced options in the past with not much success but,
I will now have a more throrough look into that again.

regards, Richard

 

[RJK]

Thanks Michael for your in-depth response, we have just one email address.
As I mentioned to George B. I attempted solving this using OE advanced
options a very long time ago. Perhaps I'll have another go at getting Dad's
PC to leave emails on the server.

I gathered, in the past - perhaps erroneously - that it was not possible to
filter email to two stand alone PC's using the same "ISP/user account" i.e.
setting up more than one email address / using a different prefix before
the @logindomainname.co.uk enables individual email addresses but, the
login / ISP account name remains the same, and it's this that's used to
access the single pop3 mailbox. OE seems to be designed for multiple email
addresses, under multiple user-profiles, on the same, or just one PC, using
just one ISP account. ...phew

....anyway, I'm about to properly read your response

regards, Richard

 

[RJK]

Thanks Philo but, I think my old Dad would be lost using Hotmail. I don't
want to plunge him into web based email when he's just getting used to OE.



regards, Richard

 

[Michael Santovec]

It's possible to handle multiple e-mail addresses feeding into a single
server POP3 account (That's the type 1 case I mentioned in my previous
reply), but filtering isn't clean. You run into problems when both
e-mail addresses are on the same e-mail (one message sent to both of
you) or when BCC was used (typically spam or mailing lists).