TSGL: Outlook Express/Windows Mail

[Anthony Shearman]

Hi all,

My apologies for not replying to your suggestions, principally IMAP but my 
PC ran out of steam and I had to replace it - hence the delay.
I have tested IMAP and it seems to do exactly what is required, i.e. both 
PCs will have access to both sent and received items and the advantage is 
that they can be created on the respective PC without using webmail.
The ISP which the office uses does provide IMAP.

Thanks to all for your help, which is very much appreciated.

Anthony

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Russell W. Coover" <coover at fastmail.fm>
To: "'Tech Support Guy Mailing List'" <list at tsgserver.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 8:18 PM
Subject: Re: TSGL: Outlook Express/Windows Mail


> Anthony,
>
> I think Tillman's suggestion of using IMAP email may be exactly what you
> want. In IMAP, the emails are all left on the server until they are 
> deleted.
> If a second computer logs on, it sees exactly the same thing in the inbox
> that the first computer does. The only differences will be in the "Sent"
> folder, or in other folders where emails might be placed (that is, away 
> from
> the inbox).
>
> You may wish to inquire with your email provider if IMAP email is 
> available.
> It usually is.
>
> Russ Coover
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
> Behalf Of Anthony Shearman
> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 6:59 AM
> To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List
> Subject: Re: TSGL: Outlook Express/Windows Mail
>
> 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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