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by yawallace

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I have a client with multiple email accounts. Client is also running a 6 unit peer to peer network made up of portable computers and one standalone (connected to the internet via isdn) Each machine is equivalent to an email account and each has direct access to all accounts. They take a portable out of the office and download emails directly but they often pick up mail for another account. In a perfect world all email would come to the server be sorted by account. Each account would have access to every other account (there is much data sharing by neccisity). The server should have access to the data on a portable when it returns to the office and rejoins the network. I've tried to configure outlook but only with partial success. Exchange Server is not the answer. I need multiuser email but can't find any. All the solutions seem web based and I really need to confine it to the lan. Has anyone configured outlook to share external folders or can you suggest a solution. It has to be as easy and familiar as outlook or outlook express. In anticipation - many thanks.

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by dcassat

I have seen Calypso and it is very similar to outlook. I don't know if it will do what you want but it is certainly worth an effort. I don't know the company name but you may find it at download.com. Good Luck

by vh_s

Quite difficult configuration.

What would you need is an central post office, which is a standard feature of NT Server 4.0 (or Windows 95 but not standard with Windows 98).

If you could create this post office, then you would have the ability to have internal mail system within the office.

I am quite certain that previous Outlook version has the ability to CREATE SHARED FOLDERS which could be accessed by everybody connected with this internal mail system.

But take this note: to makeit work, you would have to know about Outlook Profile which define how Outlook (not Outlook Express) would integrate with internet mail.

Hope it may help.

by stuff

I'm not sure I understand the second part of your post (or it may jsut be that I'm tired and should really be going to bed), but I like Vpop3 from www.pscs.co.uk. It's simple cheap and quite flexible.

Hope this helps.

Chris

by mark

Microsoft Outlook does let you share mail folders (and many other things). I found an article once searching their website. If you need me to hunt it down again, let me know, but it will do it. I passed it to a client and he successfully shared mailthis way. Remember that users need access to the share.

Another help might be to set Outlook or Outlook express to leave the mail on the server for 2 weeks (or whatever). I do this with many clients who check their mail at home, office, or by coworkers. It won't redownload mail already retrieved and the other users will get them too. I think this is the answer you are looking for. This is under Tools,Acccount,Properties.

I too like VPOP3 mail server, but I don't think it is answering yourquestion. Seems you have a mail server but having trouble sharing it. VPOP3 will let you setup lists and groups, but perhaps your present mail server will too.

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