Windows Mail and Outlook Express on same LAN

[Murphil]

I have a LAN with 2 PCs on it: a Vista PC with Windows Mail, and a Win98 PC
with Outlook Express. I am running the same e-mail account from both PCs, but
their respective mail programs apparently run independently. That is,
whenever I run Outlook Express on my Win98 PC, to retrieve new incoming
e-mail from my ISP's mail server, I am subsequently unable to see those same
new messages from Windows Mail on my Vista PC. And vice versa! Is there some
way to configure my 2 mail programs so I can see all incoming messages from
both PCs regardless of which mail program I use to initially retrieve them?
How about if I made both mail programs use the same file/folder location for
message storage, via the LAN? Is this feasible?

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

If both computers are checking the same email account, whichever
one completes its email download first will make those emails
unavailable to the second PC. To fix that problem, go to Tools,
Accounts, select your mail account, Properties, Advanced,
enable "Leave a copy of messages on server."
Repeat the above on the second computer.

No, you can't share a common message store.

 

[Murphil]

Hi Gary...
This sounds like an excellent solution. I never would have thought of it on
my own.