downloading emails for more than one user

[Paul]

The 'unread mail messages' notification on the Windows XP welcome screen
would be a wonderful feature if it did more than remind you of how many
messages you left unread last time you logged off. To see if there is any
more, each user in turn has to log on and run Outlook.

We have a family situation (dad, mum, daughter, son) with four user
accounts, each able to access their own email. Is it possible to set things
up so that, when any user dials up the ISP to download their own mail, mail
for the other users is downloaded into their inboxes? Then, the welcome
screen would tell other users if they had new mail.

Privacy isn't an issue here. Nobody wants to keep their mail secret from
other users, so permissions could be granted as necessary. Maybe extra
software is needed? Or is there a better approach? Logging on, running
Outlook and logging off again, four times just to see if there's any new
email for anyone in the family just doesn't seem as if it ought to be
necessary!

 

[Brian Tillman]

The 'unread mail messages' notification on the Windows XP welcome
screen would be a wonderful feature if it did more than remind you of
how many messages you left unread last time you logged off. To see if
there is any more, each user in turn has to log on and run Outlook.

Accourding to Microsoft's support site, Outlook does not alter the new mail
count on the Welcome screen. Only Outlook Express and Windows Messenger do.
See http://support.microsoft.com/?id=304148. So, if this is really about
Outlook Express, ask in an Outlook Express newsgroup.

We have a family situation (dad, mum, daughter, son) with four user
accounts, each able to access their own email. Is it possible to set
things up so that, when any user dials up the ISP to download their
own mail, mail for the other users is downloaded into their inboxes?

I'm not aware of any way to do this.