Q: I have two WinXP boxes in a home LAN, one is my workstation and the other my laptop. I am used to store e-mails on the workstation, but I would like these files accessible to the laptop. gives you a guy I look up, I want Outlook Express to open the laptop and have the bills to be deducted from the workstation, storing anything on the laptop. I hope I expressed this well, what is the best setup here?
Re:And what's better is you can setup fetchmail/procmail to download and filter the mail even while you're not running OE. This comes in especially handy for people like me who are on several busy mailing lists.
Re:I second the IMAP guy. It's really the only elegant way to do it. The other methods will be pretty hit and miss, along with kludgy.
Here's a great article (http://www.sxpress.com/~henry/qmail-pop-imap-web-howto-7.3.htm) on setting up qmail and courier-imap on Redhat…its really not difficult, and it wont require very much at all in hardware.
Re:hard to believe no one knows the answer
last bump then i let it drop.
Re:bump… any way to do this without an imap (trying to avoid setting up another box here)
Re:This is actually what I'm doing now, but when i _send_ emails off the laptop, they are not saved to the other computer. there is definitely a better way to do this…
Re:Originally posted by: guy
i have 2 WinXP boxes in a home lan, one is my workstation and the other my laptop. i am used to storing emails on the workstation, but i would like those files to be accessable by the laptop also. to give you an guy of what i'm looking for, i'd like to open outlook express on the laptop and have it pull accounts off the workstation, storing nothing on the laptop. i hope i worded this well, what's the best setup here?
In Outlook Express there is an option to leave a copy of the mail on the mail server, thus downloading only a copy of every mail onto your two client machines. The only draw back for this is that mail keeps collecting/building up towards your max usage space, so you should empty it once in a while or after you've downloaded a copy to each machine, then punt them off the ISP mail server.
Re:How about synching the 2?
Re:In OE you can set where it keeps the message store, you could try setting it to a folder on the workstation in the laptop's configuration. No guy if it'll work though.
Re:that would require an extra linux box or something like it, correct? so then there is no way to do this with my current setup? without spending money on another smaller server? and even after i setup the imap server, how can i configure OE6 anyway? thanks for your help guys.
Re:Setup an IMAP server and keep the mail there.
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