Multiple Users--outlook 2000

[moka_joka]

I recently had to reformat my hard drive. My OS is XP Home Edition. I'm
using outlook 2000 and have a POP3 email account. Prior to the reformat, any
email received on the account would automatically appear in each user's
Outlook. In fact, if a new folder were created in my user account on
Outlook, it would appear in other user's account. That has changed and now
emails only appear in the user account who actually downloaded them. How do
I make it go back to the way it was before?

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

Were you using XP before the reformat? Just curious because XP's default
behavior is what you're seeing now (where all users have their own set of
files, settings, etc). Right now we could setup the machine to use the same
PST file for all users but you would still have to setup the mail account
under each user seperately.

 

[dubya]

As a related question: Can two or more installations of Outlook 2003 on
different operating systems (& different partitions) accessing the same POP
3 account, be set to use the same .pst file - or the same
messages/contacts/calendar store of any kind? As I understand it, the only
alternative is an .ost file, and then only when using Exchange.

Thanks!

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

You can point to the same PST but I'm not sure if you won't get double
downloads of messages off the POP3 server (unless you set Outlook to always
delete the messages).