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I am running OE on dell desk top and a Mac running alongside on wireless. If I open an e-amil on one of them will it still show on the other OE? Is there some sort of setting that has to be entered?
It will still show if you leave a copy on the server
Tools/Accounts/choose your mail account/then propertys/then click on the advance tab , near the bottom , you will see "Leave a copy of the message on the server"" Please Post back to let us know if we helped "
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Also you should change this setting on both units, so if you check on either one it will be on the other and also you should set to either remove from the server after so many days or when deleted cause your inbox on the server will get full
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Convert to an idependent mail carrier like Gmail and you don't have to worry about all the above because your mail is always stored where it is accessable from any computer that you choose to use. And you have almost 3 gigs of storage per account so you don't have to worry about being full .
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If you have a message downloaded and listed in OE incoming mail-box on the Dell, it will not show up on the Mac OE until you open OE (on the Mac) and download that same message from the incoming mail server.
When you open it on the Mac, anything you do to a given message will not be reflected in the version (already stored) on the Dell; and visa versa.
As soon as you open OE on either PC it will either automatically pull down any messages it doesn't have, or do so on your command - depends on your personal preferences/settings as to which it will do?
And you could be using one PC (say the Dell) for OE primarily (and thus the Mac occasionally) and have a significant difference in OE downloaded messages (and also records of those sent) between the two computers.
If you want them synchronous... I'm guessing your simplest appproach is to open OE on each computer in turn, and download incoming mail to each computer in turn? But this will not keep a synchronous record of mail sent; each computer will have its own local store of sent mail... And likewise changes made to any mail on one computer will not show up in/for the same mail/message on the other.
If you have an independant/on-line mail service (e.g Gmail as mooted by Lurkswithin) where it all mail stays until you elect to remove it..., then again if you access it via OE on either computer, same conditions still apply... (This of course presumes Gmail works with OE...; Hotmail does - but Gmail???).
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Install Burrotech's Office Mail on the Dell computer, then configure both computers with Office Mail as the mail server then you can get the same mail on both computers.
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One gets the same mail (incoming) on both systems as is - providing one actually opens/runs OE (or Outlook for that matter too) and download the incoming mail. It's the issue of synching the two automatically that's at issue? Any outgoing mail on one system will not be on the other; unless one manually gets across (somehow)? And if one has a local server... then again unless one actualy connects each system to it regularly (daily?)... the two will be out of sync?
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I went to the advance tab and clicked on the "leave copy on server". Now I get two copies on the Dell when anything is sent to it! May be time to dump the Dell and buy a another Mac.
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I've never tried this, but i THINK it should work.
I am assuming the two machines are networked.
Let us assume that the Dell is your main machine, but you occasionally want to work on mail using the Mac
Go on to the Mac and delete all mail messages.
Go to Tools>Options>Maintenance>Store messages.
Change the location of the meesages to be on the Dell, and in the place on the Dell where it stores its messages.
The two machines are now using just one set of files, and so all mail will be identical on both machines - send a message on either, and you will be able to see it on both - log on and get a message on either, you will see it on both.
It would probably be unwise to use mail on both machines simultaneously - though you could try it if you had made a backup first!
If the Mac is a notebook, and you want the mail available when mobile, then you would make that the "master"
I expect somebody will now tell me why this won't work!
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Not played with a Mac for an aeon - and then it was an early incarnation known as an Apple - back in the late 80s... So not familiar with the Mac system (nor for that matter OE - use Outlook occasionally...)
Nonethless this is a novel approach; and I can't see why it won't work at first looks... In effect the Dell (in your example) become the local storage for both computers? Full marks???
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