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Tim Parr
I am a new Mac/Entourage, but experienced PC Outlook user, having
recently migrated to a mac for graphic processsing capabilities from
the world of PC, I need to find a solution to my email problem. The
identities solution in Entourage seems to differ radically from that
of thge PC based MS Outlook.
I need to configure Entourage on my G4 Powerbook so that when opening
either of the two idenities the same email information, (received,
sent etc.), and address book is displayed. As happened when I used my
old Sony Vaio Notebook running XP Pro and Outlook 2003. The reason for
selecting two identities as a setup is explained below - is this the
correct solution?
I was used to opening my PC Outlook in two different identities
running two sets of accounts; Home and Office, so that I could from
home pick up personal email direct from my ISP, and work email via a
VPN to the office, or whilst at the office, my work email from a
network PC that acts as a mail server, (running a third party mail
server program), and personal emil from the ISP. It was configured
like this with accounts with different send and receive parameters so
that I got around the problem of 'receive failures' popping up on
screen. For example whilst at the office if the VPN account was used
it could not go out through the hub and back in again to the mail
server PC, or at home if the office email server network address was
used it would not find it as it would need to go through the VPN
first. With the PC all email appeared to end up in the same pst file
and thus on was displayed no matter which identity I opened Outlook
under.
Am I barking up the wrong tree, or do I need to employ a dedicated
server at the office running Microsoft Exchange and get rid of Pop
accounts and thus pick up email directly from this server from all
locations. since we are quite a small company it seems to be a bit of
a sledgehammer to crack a nut solution in terms of cost, however there
will no doubt be other benifits.
Your help would be greatly appreciated.
recently migrated to a mac for graphic processsing capabilities from
the world of PC, I need to find a solution to my email problem. The
identities solution in Entourage seems to differ radically from that
of thge PC based MS Outlook.
I need to configure Entourage on my G4 Powerbook so that when opening
either of the two idenities the same email information, (received,
sent etc.), and address book is displayed. As happened when I used my
old Sony Vaio Notebook running XP Pro and Outlook 2003. The reason for
selecting two identities as a setup is explained below - is this the
correct solution?
I was used to opening my PC Outlook in two different identities
running two sets of accounts; Home and Office, so that I could from
home pick up personal email direct from my ISP, and work email via a
VPN to the office, or whilst at the office, my work email from a
network PC that acts as a mail server, (running a third party mail
server program), and personal emil from the ISP. It was configured
like this with accounts with different send and receive parameters so
that I got around the problem of 'receive failures' popping up on
screen. For example whilst at the office if the VPN account was used
it could not go out through the hub and back in again to the mail
server PC, or at home if the office email server network address was
used it would not find it as it would need to go through the VPN
first. With the PC all email appeared to end up in the same pst file
and thus on was displayed no matter which identity I opened Outlook
under.
Am I barking up the wrong tree, or do I need to employ a dedicated
server at the office running Microsoft Exchange and get rid of Pop
accounts and thus pick up email directly from this server from all
locations. since we are quite a small company it seems to be a bit of
a sledgehammer to crack a nut solution in terms of cost, however there
will no doubt be other benifits.
Your help would be greatly appreciated.