shared outlook express inbox

[russdev]

anyway have setting outlook express to look for inbox files on n/w drive so that can set multipul users to access the email.

 

Russ

[Dos_Box]

I have a trick with Outlook Express. It involves 5 lts of petrol, an oily rag and a lump hammer. Seriously though what is it that your users want you to do? And to make life easier can it be done without OE, the spammer and virus spreaders best friend?

[Geoff]

You can do this with Thunderbird..

 

http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/profile#move

[russdev]

worked how to do it agree but then this is office staff..

 

russ

[Geoff]

See if the mail server supports IMAP. If it does you can tell your mail clients to leave the mail on the server and 'work' on it remotely. That way everyone gets the same mailbox view.

[ajbritton]

We have used OE in 'shared' mode by moving the store location to a network drive. Wish we'd never bothered!

 

If two users try to access at the same time, one will be unable to access it. This is bad enough, but the copy of OE on their PC will create a new set of files (inbox1 etc) and refer to these in the future.

 

We tried to make it reliable by creating individual shares for each mailbox and setting the max concurrent users to 1. This worked, but once a user connected to the share by loading OE, the connection to the share would be held open until that user logged off their PC.

[tarquel]

glad u beat me to it abj lol

 

Would this happen with Outlook (non-express version)?

 

outlook.pst file on a share...etc.... ?

 

N.

[ajbritton]

I don't think Outlook would create a new .PST if it could not access a shared one, it would just complain and attempt to open the default file system or something. Probably a safer bet than OE, but I've never been that confident using Outlook as a POP client. Having said that, Outlook 2003 as a LOT better than previous versions.

 

Education prices for Exchange are low....

[russdev]

might got imap route

 

russ

[tarquel]

@abj:

 

Outlook 2003 is good init?

 

At home, I have the .pst file on my desktop pc and I have got the laptop's Outlook 2003 to use it

 

If it cant find it, it wont make a new one - it asks you to locate it or open one [which is nice as you can just close it of course]

 

A much safer bet that OE

 

Cheers

N.