storing email on one box, while accessable by 2

[idea]

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 idea 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?

 

[Nothinman]

Setup an IMAP server and keep the mail there.

 

[idea]

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.

 

[Nothinman]

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 idea if it'll work though.

 

[mboy]

How about synching the 2?

 

[Thor86]

Originally posted by: idea
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 idea 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.

 

[idea]

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...

 

[idea]

bump... any way to do this without an imap (trying to avoid setting up another box here)

 

[idea]

hard to believe no one knows the answer 😱

last bump then i let it drop.

 

[stash]

I second the IMAP idea. 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 on setting up qmail and courier-imap on Redhat...its really not difficult, and it wont require very much at all in hardware.

 

[Nothinman]

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.