RE: LAN E-mail w/Outlook

["James, Daniel" <daniel.james@xxxxxxx>]

Ok I got Mercury installed last night, took me 20 minutes....

>1)  Access my e-mail from any computer on the LAN

It will let you do this.

>2)  The e-mails would only viewed/sent from the client computer (not
stored
on
the client)

I do this using a shared drive for my user files, so all machines connect
to
one central PST file depending on who is logged on, - using profiles in
Windows...


>3)  The saved e-mails (i.e "inbox") and the e-mail folders
would be stored
on
the server.

See above, I also have desktops / favourites / My documents stored on the
server, so that when someone logs on all their bits and pieces look the
same
on each PC...

4)  M$ Outlook  Express to be used on the clients?

The only thing I am not sure about is how OE stores the mail...

Outlook uses a PST file, and if you move or delete the original the next
time you open it it asks for the file location, so you can move the pst
file
for a user and then open outlook and every time thereafter it will at the
new location.

Daniel

-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Woolridge [mailto:doug_woolridge@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 27 February 2002 22:50
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] LAN E-mail w/Outlook




Hi all,

I've been carefully following the thread on Mercury mail and am quite
interested
in setting this up.  I've got a couple of questions though.

What I'd like it to do is:
1)  Access my e-mail from any computer on the LAN
2)  The e-mails would only viewed/sent from the client computer (not stored
on
the client)
3)  The saved e-mails (i.e "inbox") and the e-mail folders would
be stored
on
the server.
4)  M$ Outlook  Express to be used on the clients?

To boil it down, I'd like to access the same e-mail account/mailbox from
different PC's preferably using Outlook Express.

I've read through the setup on http://mid.uk.com/mercury and think I
understand
it.  Does this setup mean the e-mail is transferred to Outlook on the
client
computer?  If I check e-mail from 2 different computers on the LAN, I would
have
2 different "inboxes" with different contents?

I already have multiple accounts set up on one of my computers for my and
SWMBO's e-mail addresses.


Thanks for the help,

Doug Woolridge




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