TSGL: Outlook Express/Windows Mail

[Tilman Brandl]

Anthony,

in addition to the hints others have already offered:

>From what I know there are a few alternatives:
- #1 ,which has been mentioned. may work, it would NOT for me though. IMHO 
there's no secure way to be 100% sure which email has been read or acted 
upon from the 2nd machine

- #2 you could try and have the same email client access all email from a 
single database in the network. You can do so with OE, not sure if this 
would work with 2 different clients (don't think so). I've heard rumours 
that OE for instance has rather limited networking abilities, some people 
were reporting a crashing system and/or OE

- #3 use a mailserver software on one of the machines in the network, the 
other PC would access the mail on this server. I know there are (even free) 
mailserver programs out there on the web.

- #4 you could try an IMAP account (ask your ISP) which AFAIK works based on 
a virtual representation of the emails, you would then save the ones you 
want to work with to your machine. Is said to work faster than POP3 while it 
would take flatrate access to really make sense. Beware! I've heard about 
it, but never tried it.

Unfortunately, that's all I can offer - no own experience with using any of 
these solutions. But you would find more on the web, for instance by using 
google.

Tilman

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anthony Shearman" <anthony at shearmans.co.uk>
To: <list at tsgserver.com>
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 11:48 PM
Subject: TSGL: Outlook Express/Windows Mail


>I belong to a House Owners' Association out of a small office originally
> with a PC running Windows Xp Professional and has now acquired a second PC
> running Windows Vista Home Basic.
> With the one PC all e-mail traffic was concentrated in Outlook Express but
> now there are two PCs which are networked, the only way e-mail can be
> handled is through webmail, in order for both PCs to have access.
> My apologies for such a long-winded introduction but my question is: is it
> possible for two PCs to have access to both incoming and outgoing e-mail 
> on
> a centralised basis?
>
> Appreciate any thoughts you can give me.