One Email - many clients

[Joe Horton]

Is there some way to have one email accessed by many Outlook 2003 clients?



My situation is I have a main email such as (e-mail address removed) where all work orders are sent to. I have a couple data entry people servicing these individual emails. So what would work great is if both Outlooks' were somehow pointed to the same PST file. So if one of the girls deletes the email on her computer - it would also delete it from the Outlook on the other computer.



Is there any way to do this?

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

No.

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After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Joe Horton asked:

| Is there some way to have one email accessed by many Outlook 2003
| clients?
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| My situation is I have a main email such as (e-mail address removed) where
| all work orders are sent to. I have a couple data entry people
| servicing these individual emails. So what would work great is if
| both Outlooks' were somehow pointed to the same PST file. So if one
| of the girls deletes the email on her computer - it would also delete
| it from the Outlook on the other computer.
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| Is there any way to do this?

 

[Guest]

Put the .Pst file on a shared network drive or share out the .PST file from
that one PC. Have all the other PC's look at the .PST file.

 

[Joe Horton]

I have tried that and get shareing issues - a couple have reported to me
this isn't possible. I thought I did it ok with an older version at one
time.

Put the .Pst file on a shared network drive or share out the .PST file from
that one PC. Have all the other PC's look at the .PST file.

work orders are sent to. I have a couple data entry people servicing these
individual emails. So what would work great is if both Outlooks' were
somehow pointed to the same PST file. So if one of the girls deletes the
email on her computer - it would also delete it from the Outlook on the
other computer.

 

[DL]

The use of a pst on a shared network is not supported by MS - can lead to
corruption

 

[Brian Tillman]

I have tried that and get shareing issues - a couple have reported to
me this isn't possible.

It's not possible because each Outlook instance expects to have exclusive
access to the PST. It is possible only if only one instance of Outlook
referencing that PST is running at any one time.