Sharing 1 email addr and OE messages on all home nwk PCs

[Guest]

I have a laptop on a wireless link and 2 desktops wired to the same home
wireless router. Any ideas on how to set one of the desktops as a host for
outlook express in/sent/storage folders, and use these same folders for
emails sent from the other PCs? Outlook wants a separate email entity for
each machine, and wants to store all messages on the machine where they are
created or read. Right now, I do not have a "Server" per se, and all the PCs
are peers using the same internet port via the router.

 

[Gordon]

I have a laptop on a wireless link and 2 desktops wired to the same home
wireless router. Any ideas on how to set one of the desktops as a host for
outlook express in/sent/storage folders, and use these same folders for
emails sent from the other PCs? Outlook wants a separate email entity for
each machine, and wants to store all messages on the machine where they are
created or read. Right now, I do not have a "Server" per se, and all the PCs
are peers using the same internet port via the router.

Read this as to why you can't do that:
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/faqs/why.htm#network

 

[Gordon]

Have you tried in the options menu, setting the data file. It should be
possible to set the laptop to use the pst file on one of the desktops pc's.
I've not tried what you want but I do move my 'pst' file abound on the
computer.

the subject line in the OP's post said "OE" - in other words, Outlook
Express, NOT Outlook.