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Bob Phillips

I have a desktop PC which is also running Outlook, and I tend to have my
email accounts defined on that machine and also on my laptop.

Ideally, I would like to split my accounts, but be able to access them on
both machines. I don't want to define them all to one machine and access
this as a server, it won't always be on.

I was thinking of something such as creating a profile say on my laptop
which pointed at my desktop login id.

Is this possible, and if so, how?

TIA

Bob
 
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Roady [MVP]

You are not making much sense to me. You've got several accounts and you
want to access them from both your laptop and desktop but don't want to
configure them on both? No, not possible.

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Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-What do the Outlook Icons Mean?
-Create an Office 2003 CD slipstreamed with Service Pack 1
 
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Bob Phillips

Guess I wasn't too clear.

What I would like is to be able to access the mail that I had read and sent
from my desktop from my laptop.

Say I have accounts A & B on my desktop, and C & D on my laptop, I don't
want to read new mail for the A/B accounts on my laptop, but I would like to
get at the stuff that I have already retrieved from my ISP.


Roady said:
You are not making much sense to me. You've got several accounts and you
want to access them from both your laptop and desktop but don't want to
configure them on both? No, not possible.

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-What do the Outlook Icons Mean?
-Create an Office 2003 CD slipstreamed with Service Pack 1

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Bob Phillips said:
I have a desktop PC which is also running Outlook, and I tend to have my
email accounts defined on that machine and also on my laptop.

Ideally, I would like to split my accounts, but be able to access them on
both machines. I don't want to define them all to one machine and access
this as a server, it won't always be on.

I was thinking of something such as creating a profile say on my laptop
which pointed at my desktop login id.

Is this possible, and if so, how?

TIA

Bob
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Brian Tillman

Bob Phillips said:
What I would like is to be able to access the mail that I had read
and sent from my desktop from my laptop.
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Then you'll have to do something unsupported and make your desktop's PST
available in a network share and open it with the laptop's Outlook.
 
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Bob Phillips

Brian,

I guess you just mean to create a Personal Folder pointing at that share?

is there a way I can create a profile so that when I logon to that profile I
only see that PST, on my normal profile I see my laptop PSTs?

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HTH

RP
(remove nothere from the email address if mailing direct)
 
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Brian Tillman

Bob Phillips said:
I guess you just mean to create a Personal Folder pointing at that
share?
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No, I mean you place a PST in that share (a share is a network-accessible
folder) and tell Outlook to use it. Again, it's not supported, but it
usually works.
is there a way I can create a profile so that when I logon to that
profile I only see that PST, on my normal profile I see my laptop
PSTs?
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Certainly. In fact, I do that myself. I also have another profile that
points to my work's Exchange server and no other message store. I chose
which profile I want when I start Outlook.

So, one profile references the Exchange store, one profile references a PST
on a network share, and a third profile references a local PST. None is
aware of the others, but that's not to say I couldn't reference more than
one of the PSTs in the same profile, but for each profile, the messages
stores above are the delivery location.
 
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