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Greg Dawson
I have multiple machines in the house and want to have as many applications
be identical as possible in terms of data usage. Thus I share many data
files and it generally works well, keeping in mind that a given application
which shares the same data file can only be used on one machine at a time.
This is not too restrictive for my family, and windows protects you from
making damaging mistakes as it will not allow concurrant access. I have used
a shared PST on Outlook for a long time and it works well. Whichever machine
you get on, you are using the same e-mail.
I also would like to leave a copy of my inbox on the server (Yahoo Pop3) for
a few days, which allows access from the web wherever I am, even if the home
machine has downloaded messages. You can pretty easily set this up via mail
options. This worked fine with Outlook 2000. However, we converted to
Outlook 2003 and now there is a problem. Outlook 2003 apparently keeps track
of the messages it already has on each machine, rather than within the shared
PST. The result is that if you leave a copy of the messages on the server,
each machine downloads a copy of the message. This results in
duplicate/triplicate messages. Thus, I have to tell Outlook to purge the
messages immediately from the server. This avoids duplicate messages in the
Inbox, but we can't leave a copy on the server for web access for a few days.
The enhancement I would like is for Outlook to keep the pointers in the
shared file in a way that recognizes that a message has already been
downloaded, no matter which machine did it.
be identical as possible in terms of data usage. Thus I share many data
files and it generally works well, keeping in mind that a given application
which shares the same data file can only be used on one machine at a time.
This is not too restrictive for my family, and windows protects you from
making damaging mistakes as it will not allow concurrant access. I have used
a shared PST on Outlook for a long time and it works well. Whichever machine
you get on, you are using the same e-mail.
I also would like to leave a copy of my inbox on the server (Yahoo Pop3) for
a few days, which allows access from the web wherever I am, even if the home
machine has downloaded messages. You can pretty easily set this up via mail
options. This worked fine with Outlook 2000. However, we converted to
Outlook 2003 and now there is a problem. Outlook 2003 apparently keeps track
of the messages it already has on each machine, rather than within the shared
PST. The result is that if you leave a copy of the messages on the server,
each machine downloads a copy of the message. This results in
duplicate/triplicate messages. Thus, I have to tell Outlook to purge the
messages immediately from the server. This avoids duplicate messages in the
Inbox, but we can't leave a copy on the server for web access for a few days.
The enhancement I would like is for Outlook to keep the pointers in the
shared file in a way that recognizes that a message has already been
downloaded, no matter which machine did it.