using outlook to share email

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Hi,

We have a small home office with 3 pc's all running outlook 2000. All 3 are
networked via an ADSL router.

Is it possible for mail to come into one of the pc's and then be passed on
to the others and any replies show on the original pc?

Thank for your help.

DP.
 
MarkP said:
Hi,

We have a small home office with 3 pc's all running outlook 2000. All
3 are networked via an ADSL router.

Is it possible for mail to come into one of the pc's and then be
passed on to the others and any replies show on the original pc?

Thank for your help.

DP.
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yes it is, but you would need to run a mail server application on the first
pc. Do a google search, there are several free ones out there.
 
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yes it is, but you would need to run a mail server application on the
first pc. Do a google search, there are several free ones out there.
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Thanks. I've just had a look at Google and I will try some of them over the
weekend. From an initial look, Pegasus Mail sounds quite good. Have you
heard of this being used or do you have any recommendations.

Thanks again.

Mark.
 
MarkP said:
We have a small home office with 3 pc's all running outlook 2000. All
3 are networked via an ADSL router.

Is it possible for mail to come into one of the pc's and then be
passed on to the others and any replies show on the original pc?
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Yes, if you share the same message store between all three PCs. It's not
supported, however.
 
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Yes, if you share the same message store between all three PCs. It's not
supported, however.
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Hi Brian, do you mean set them all to look at the same file on the main PC
or am I missing something. That answer seems to simple to be true.

Paul.
 
MarkP said:
Hi,

We have a small home office with 3 pc's all running outlook 2000. All
3 are networked via an ADSL router.

Is it possible for mail to come into one of the pc's and then be
passed on to the others and any replies show on the original pc?

Thank for your help.

DP.
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"Come into one of the PC's"? Are you really asking how to run a local
mail server? What version of Windows do you run? Maybe you already
have the SMTP server included in Windows 2000/XP as a component of IIS.
However, make sure you contract with your ISP permits you to run
servers. Most don't for personal accounts and is cause to terminate
your account. Plus many will not allow SMTP traffic to cross over their
domain unless you get permission, or get a business account.
 
MarkP said:
do you mean set them all to look at the same file on the
main PC or am I missing something. That answer seems to simple to be
true.
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That's what I mean. On one PC, place the PST in a network-shared folder and
access that PST from all PCs. Only one Outlook at a time should be opened,
though.
 
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That's what I mean. On one PC, place the PST in a network-shared folder
and access that PST from all PCs. Only one Outlook at a time should be
opened, though.
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Ahhh, knew it was too good to be true. It would be a bit of a pain to keep
shutting Outlook down on the other pc's.

Thanks anyway.

Mark.
 
MarkP said:
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Ahhh, knew it was too good to be true. It would be a bit of a pain to
keep shutting Outlook down on the other pc's.
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Outlook demands read and WRITE access to the PST file. That is why only
one instance of Outlook can have the PST file open at a time. Microsoft
recommends against putting a PST file on a networked drive; see
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=297019. Besides the mentioned
overhead, the file won't get properly closed (by the application,
Outlook, or your instance of Windows) if there is a network disconnect
while the PST is still opened for write access. It's like the app or OS
crashed while the file was open.

You might want to find an e-mail service that provides an IMAP server as
this type of mail server was meant to be shared by a traveling user or
by multiple users. Outlook 2002 supports IMAP. Outlook 2000 cannot use
IMAP in Corporate Mode but can in Internet Mode; see
http://computing.arizona.edu/help/email/outlook/outlook2000imap.html.
 
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