TSGL: Outlook Express/Windows Mail

[Anthony Shearman]

Thanks Tilman,

I'll look into your suggestions and see what I can come up with

Anthony

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tilman Brandl" <tbrandl2 at chello.at>
To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" <list at tsgserver.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 3:48 PM
Subject: Re: TSGL: Outlook Express/Windows Mail


> 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.
>
>
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