Email utility

Hi

I have a wireless network with the PC as the main machine and a couple
laptop connected wirelessly.

Can anyone suggest an Outlook add-on that will allow emails received
on the main PC to be on sent to laptops on a wireless network.

Many thanks

"tony s" <tony_no_spam_adams@no_spam_highbury.com> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi
>
> I have a wireless network with the PC as the main machine and a couple
> laptop connected wirelessly.
>
> Can anyone suggest an Outlook add-on that will allow emails received
> on the main PC to be on sent to laptops on a wireless network.


Havent a clue about an 'add-on' but what i have done is thus:

Set up all the PCs to contact your email servers so they can receive and
send emails but untick the "delete mail from server" box.

In my case my main PC is on all the time, and its Outlook preferences tell
it to delete from server, but its sat behind a firewall which defaults to
locked after 5mins, so it then cannot check for new email whilst its locked.

My laptop has dont delete email from server, but doesnt have the auto lock
enabled.

Hence, in a fashion both always have uptodate email available.

Tim..

On 22 Dec 2005 20:04, "Tim" wrote:

>In my case my main PC is on all the time, and its Outlook preferences tell
>it to delete from server, but its sat behind a firewall which defaults to
>locked after 5mins, so it then cannot check for new email whilst its locked.

It might be better to check for some setting which allows mail to be deleted
after (say) 10 days, which means the laptop(s) can grab the mail any time in
that number of days before the main PC will automatically delete it from the
server. Not seen that 'locking' feature - which firewall, please ? TIA.

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>On 22 Dec 2005 20:04, "Tim" wrote:
>
>>In my case my main PC is on all the time, and its Outlook preferences tell
>>it to delete from server, but its sat behind a firewall which defaults to
>>locked after 5mins, so it then cannot check for new email whilst its locked.
>
>It might be better to check for some setting which allows mail to be deleted
>after (say) 10 days, which means the laptop(s) can grab the mail any time in
>that number of days before the main PC will automatically delete it from the
>server. Not seen that 'locking' feature - which firewall, please ? TIA.

He could also look into seeing if his email provider has IMAP capability
rather than POP3. All machines would "share" the email then.

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In message <(E-Mail Removed)>, deKay
<(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Fri, 23 Dec
>2005 09:27:52 +0000, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
>uk.comp.home-networking, yawatina tan reek esk Peter M
><us-(E-Mail Removed)> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>
>>On 22 Dec 2005 20:04, "Tim" wrote:
>>
>>>In my case my main PC is on all the time, and its Outlook preferences tell
>>>it to delete from server, but its sat behind a firewall which defaults to
>>>locked after 5mins, so it then cannot check for new email whilst its locked.
>>
>>It might be better to check for some setting which allows mail to be deleted
>>after (say) 10 days, which means the laptop(s) can grab the mail any time in
>>that number of days before the main PC will automatically delete it from the
>>server. Not seen that 'locking' feature - which firewall, please ? TIA.
>
>He could also look into seeing if his email provider has IMAP capability
>rather than POP3. All machines would "share" the email then.

Even better would be to install a mail handling system that downloads
the mail and delivers it via a local POP3 or IMAP server. I am using
Turnpike here, which does the same sort of job. Unfortunately as
Turnpike isn't being developed any more I couldn't recommend it.



--
Bernard Peek
London, UK. DBA, Manager, Trainer & Author.

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, tony s says...
> Hi
>
> I have a wireless network with the PC as the main machine and a couple
> laptop connected wirelessly.
>
> Can anyone suggest an Outlook add-on that will allow emails received
> on the main PC to be on sent to laptops on a wireless network.

Ask if your ISP supports IMAP.

--
Conor

"You're not married, you haven't got a girlfriend and you've never seen
Star Trek? Good Lord!" - Patrick Stewart, Extras.

On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 12:46:54 -0000, Conor <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, tony s says...
>> Hi
>>
>> I have a wireless network with the PC as the main machine and a couple
>> laptop connected wirelessly.
>>
>> Can anyone suggest an Outlook add-on that will allow emails received
>> on the main PC to be on sent to laptops on a wireless network.
>
>Ask if your ISP supports IMAP.

Bad news ......... my ISP does not support IMAP.

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
tony_no_spam_adams@no_spam_highbury.com says...
> On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 12:46:54 -0000, Conor <(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote:
>
> >In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, tony s says...
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> I have a wireless network with the PC as the main machine and a couple
> >> laptop connected wirelessly.
> >>
> >> Can anyone suggest an Outlook add-on that will allow emails received
> >> on the main PC to be on sent to laptops on a wireless network.
> >
> >Ask if your ISP supports IMAP.
>
> Bad news ......... my ISP does not support IMAP.
>
You could run your own IMAP server on the PC to give you access from the
laptops.

On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 09:11:12 -0000, Rob Morley <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
>tony_no_spam_adams@no_spam_highbury.com says...
>> On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 12:46:54 -0000, Conor <(E-Mail Removed)>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, tony s says...
>> >> Hi
>> >>
>> >> I have a wireless network with the PC as the main machine and a couple
>> >> laptop connected wirelessly.
>> >>
>> >> Can anyone suggest an Outlook add-on that will allow emails received
>> >> on the main PC to be on sent to laptops on a wireless network.
>> >
>> >Ask if your ISP supports IMAP.
>>
>> Bad news ......... my ISP does not support IMAP.
>>
>You could run your own IMAP server on the PC to give you access from the
>laptops.

How could I set that up Rob?