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Microsoft Outlook - Sharing & Networking
I have been a long-time Outlook Express user in our business. We have now got to the point where we have a few staff on board all requiring access to their own email address.
What I would like to know....can outlook (not express) have a main inbok that everyone can share (ie. read, write etc. on the same inbox simultaniously from different PC's)? I would like a main inbox that catches all addresses (as well as each user receiving their own messages) so that admin can review and print/file/delete each message that comes in. Can Outlook handle this? If so, how does it network? We dont have a main fileserver or domain controller, just 4 machines that network via an ADSL router using a simple workgroup. All are running Windows XP. I would intend on having one of the machines acting as a host (to also host Filemaker) if Outlook works that way. Does Outlook store messages in one whopping big file, or seperate files for each message?  I would greatly appreciate any help from anybody.Cheers.....Nickuss 
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01-24-2006, 05:16 AM
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Tom, Jane, Betty and you could each have an email account. You could add a "common" email account to each machine and use the "leave mail on server" option. Both Outlook and O Express can handel this...
Other option is to spend a fortune and get an exchange server...
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01-24-2006, 09:11 AM
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What about a Mercury server (free)?
www.pmail.com Outlook stores everything in one whopping .pst file. It's not like OE where each folder is its own .dbx file. |
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01-25-2006, 01:19 AM
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Thank you everybody for replying.
I have chosen to just go with each person having there own address on each machine and not worrying about sharing a central box. We now have 5 staff which will probably increase in a few months...so when the time comes we might actually look at getting a Windows server with exchange. We can also then run a central fileserver as well as having our own in-house web server. Our needs a small so I think the one server could handle all the tasks ok? Thank you again. |
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