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Sharing Emails over a LAN?

  • 02-04-2006 8:25pm
    #1
    byte
    Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,124 Mod ✭✭✭✭
    byte


    Is it possible for 2 computers over a network to share the Inbox emails?

    So that I could access the emails from a 2nd computer, and if I retrieve emails from the email server, they all still arrive in the shared inbox?

    Currently, both machines are using Outlook 2000, though I was considering Thunderbird, as it seems less resource-hungry than Outlook.

    Any info would be appreciated.

    TIA


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  • #2
    Karoma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,396 ✭✭✭✭Karoma


    What is the "email server"? Exchange?


  • #3
    byte
    Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,124 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    When I said email server, I meant the ISP's server, where emails lie until downloaded to PC. ISP is eircom.net btw.

    Basically, want to know if I can modify some part of Thunderbird, so that the path to the emails file on 2nd PC, is the file on the 1st PC (main PC). So that both will be looking at the same emails.


  • #4
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    Create a shared folder on one of your computers. Create an Outlook Personal Folder on that share, and have each copy of Outlook deliver all mail to that mailbox.


  • #5
    byte
    Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,124 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    Ah, thanks Aidan

    Will try it out tomorrow.


  • #6
    Random
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,080 ✭✭✭✭Random


    Alternatively check the box in Outlook to "leave a copy of the messages on the server for x days".

    That way you can both access it without needing any shared folders, exchanges or what not.


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  • #7
    byte
    Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,124 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    Thanks, that's another good idea.


  • #8
    thetourist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 469 ✭✭thetourist


    aidan_walsh wrote:
    Create a shared folder on one of your computers. Create an Outlook Personal Folder on that share, and have each copy of Outlook deliver all mail to that mailbox.


    i tore my hair out sorting out a similar problem and as far as i can remember i tried the above and it didnt work ..... i have an up and running system now and it works using a program called easy2sync http://www.download.com/Easy2Sync-for-Outlook/3000-2369-10256117.html which works with outlook so maybe that's not what you want.
    the way it works is that you must have both computers on to do the sync ( obviously i suppose) and you run easy2sync on one of them - and to sync you must have outlook closed on the other pc and then you run easy to sync after you get your emails on the second machine - works fine but it's different to using an exchange server
    ps i do use a similar method to the above to sync my bookmarks between firefox on the two machines


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