Exchange and PC and MAC

  • Thread starter Francisco Perez-Landaeta
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Francisco Perez-Landaeta

Hi,

Maybe this question has been asked 1,000 times. My intention is to the
following :

A) Have a PC to receive all the emails (hotmail, pop account, etc)
B) Have my MAC retrieve all the messages but keep them at my PC ( basically
this will allow me to connect from everywhere to my pc and download the
messages I need.

Questions :

1.- Is this feasible, intelligent or is it a waste of time, bandwidth, etc.
2.- Will my PC need server software or my Windows Office professional XP I
can do it ? ( What software do I need to accomplish this )
The PC will be like a server.

3.- Will I need a public (fixed) ip address or DHCP to connect to my pc will
be fine.


Thanks

Francisco
 
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Mickey Stevens

One way to do this would be to switch to Exchange, IMAP, and Hotmail
accounts. With those types of accounts, mail is stored on a central server
that can be accessed from any number of machines. If you decided to get a
central server, an expensive option, you'd want it to be an IMAP server.
Much more practical would be to set up IMAP accounts with existing
providers.

With a POP account, this becomes a bit more difficult. You could set both
the Windows and Macintosh machines to leave a copy of each message on the
server (you would do this in Entourage in Tools -> Accounts, under the
"Options" tab for your account). Then, each message would be received on
both machines.
 
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