Multi-user Outlook
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I figured that was what you meant. I'll dig around in outlook and see what I can find because that would help me and my nodes :-P out too. I bet Roger is on the right track if it is possible.
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:laugh: Thanks Joshua. I'll continue looking as well. Cheers, Tom Archer Author, Inside C#
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I'm currently using OE and wanted to know if Outlook has multi-user capabilities. Basically, I have a 4 node setup in my house and want my wife and I to both be able to read/write emails from our respective workstations. Has anyone any experience with this. By the way, I'm assuming that Exchange can do this, but I'm hoping that I can get away with using Outlook and not needing Exchange. Cheers, Tom Archer Author, Inside C#
In OE, you can create identities for you and other family members. Each member logs in with his/her own identity. This is the case, if you are using a single machine and login. If you login as different users, then OE creates seperate mail boxes for each of the logins. If you have 4 machines and each of you have seperate mail addresses, I did not really understand the problem. Thomas
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I'm currently using OE and wanted to know if Outlook has multi-user capabilities. Basically, I have a 4 node setup in my house and want my wife and I to both be able to read/write emails from our respective workstations. Has anyone any experience with this. By the way, I'm assuming that Exchange can do this, but I'm hoping that I can get away with using Outlook and not needing Exchange. Cheers, Tom Archer Author, Inside C#
I'm not entirely sure what you mean. Do you mean you want to be able to access your user mail from any of the "nodes" in your house? Including Sent mail, drafts, etc..? Well, one way to do this would be to use roaming account profiles under NT, but you'd need an NT Server using domains to do this. If you're running 9x, then you could store your mail directory on a mapped share. I'm also working on something which could solve your problem, but don't expect it anytime soon (unless you want to help write it) ;) -- Where are we going? And why am I in this handbasket?
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I'm currently using OE and wanted to know if Outlook has multi-user capabilities. Basically, I have a 4 node setup in my house and want my wife and I to both be able to read/write emails from our respective workstations. Has anyone any experience with this. By the way, I'm assuming that Exchange can do this, but I'm hoping that I can get away with using Outlook and not needing Exchange. Cheers, Tom Archer Author, Inside C#
Hi Tom, Enjoyed your book! :) Take a look at the Mercury IMAP server. There is a preview release (very stable) that is available for download here: ftp://risc.ua.edu/pegasus-previews/m32-330.exe The Mercury server is freeware and is by the author of Pegasus Mail. I have been running it for a while now for the exact same needs that you have described and it has been great. Takes 15 minutes to setup. Regards, Suresh
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I'm not entirely sure what you mean. Do you mean you want to be able to access your user mail from any of the "nodes" in your house? Including Sent mail, drafts, etc..? Well, one way to do this would be to use roaming account profiles under NT, but you'd need an NT Server using domains to do this. If you're running 9x, then you could store your mail directory on a mapped share. I'm also working on something which could solve your problem, but don't expect it anytime soon (unless you want to help write it) ;) -- Where are we going? And why am I in this handbasket?
I want both my wife and I to be able to read and write to the same email database. I'm not looking for different profiles. I just want her to be able to handle come of the company correspondence from her machine. Cheers, Tom Archer Author, Inside C#
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In OE, you can create identities for you and other family members. Each member logs in with his/her own identity. This is the case, if you are using a single machine and login. If you login as different users, then OE creates seperate mail boxes for each of the logins. If you have 4 machines and each of you have seperate mail addresses, I did not really understand the problem. Thomas
Thanks Thomas. Read my reponse to Erik below Cheers, Tom Archer Author, Inside C#
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Hi Tom, Enjoyed your book! :) Take a look at the Mercury IMAP server. There is a preview release (very stable) that is available for download here: ftp://risc.ua.edu/pegasus-previews/m32-330.exe The Mercury server is freeware and is by the author of Pegasus Mail. I have been running it for a while now for the exact same needs that you have described and it has been great. Takes 15 minutes to setup. Regards, Suresh
Thanks much Suresh! I'll check into the mail client you referred. Cheers, Tom Archer Author, Inside C#
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I want both my wife and I to be able to read and write to the same email database. I'm not looking for different profiles. I just want her to be able to handle come of the company correspondence from her machine. Cheers, Tom Archer Author, Inside C#
In that case, it's much much simpler (maybe). If your ISP supports IMAP, then you can use the IMAP facilities OE to have both of you log in to the same email account. Be careful about doing it at the same time though, since I don't think IMAP has any safeguards against multiple users doing things simultaneously. If they don't support IMAP, find one that does ;) -- Where are we going? And why am I in this handbasket?
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I'm currently using OE and wanted to know if Outlook has multi-user capabilities. Basically, I have a 4 node setup in my house and want my wife and I to both be able to read/write emails from our respective workstations. Has anyone any experience with this. By the way, I'm assuming that Exchange can do this, but I'm hoping that I can get away with using Outlook and not needing Exchange. Cheers, Tom Archer Author, Inside C#
Tom, If I understand correctly, you should be able to copy the outlook.pst or mailbox.pst file to a shared drive. On each node, you open the PST file from the shared drive, and use it. I am not sure about file/record locking, as I only did this one time. Best of luck. Shawn
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I'm currently using OE and wanted to know if Outlook has multi-user capabilities. Basically, I have a 4 node setup in my house and want my wife and I to both be able to read/write emails from our respective workstations. Has anyone any experience with this. By the way, I'm assuming that Exchange can do this, but I'm hoping that I can get away with using Outlook and not needing Exchange. Cheers, Tom Archer Author, Inside C#
Tom, Have a look at The Bat! It has a client/server mode which might meet your needs. I've been using it for some time now and it is the best email client I've come across. They have just released a new version which I've yet to install. Neville Franks, Author of ED for Windows. www.getsoft.com
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Tom, If I understand correctly, you should be able to copy the outlook.pst or mailbox.pst file to a shared drive. On each node, you open the PST file from the shared drive, and use it. I am not sure about file/record locking, as I only did this one time. Best of luck. Shawn
This is exactly what I want and I was looking for people that maybe had experience doing this so that 1) I don't waste my time on something that doesn't work and 2) I don't end up with corrupt data. Thanks Shawn! Cheers, Tom Archer Author, Inside C#
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I want both my wife and I to be able to read and write to the same email database. I'm not looking for different profiles. I just want her to be able to handle come of the company correspondence from her machine. Cheers, Tom Archer Author, Inside C#
You can use IMAP to keep the mails on the server, so that anyone who connects to the server can view all mails. But, you may have problems due the maximum mailbox size. One thing to checkout is to point the OE mailbox files to a shared drive on both the computers. If you try this, please post the results. Cheers Thomas
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I'm currently using OE and wanted to know if Outlook has multi-user capabilities. Basically, I have a 4 node setup in my house and want my wife and I to both be able to read/write emails from our respective workstations. Has anyone any experience with this. By the way, I'm assuming that Exchange can do this, but I'm hoping that I can get away with using Outlook and not needing Exchange. Cheers, Tom Archer Author, Inside C#
if it's more than one email account that you need, you will need some mail server, of course, but you don't need to go for exchange. you can get a free one at this site. with outlook you can have multiple accounts, but that will only be client side. outlook is a mail client, as we all know. mail accounts are created on a mail server. you can also have multiple identities in outlook. each identity will let you have your own settings and accounts for that particular identity. but on the other hand, if both of you want to access the same account from different machines, you'll have to ask outlook to leave a copy of the mails on the server. outlook be default does not leave the mail on the server and deletes it after you download it. hope that was what you wanted to know. peace and hallelujah impuzible