EMail Sharing
 

How do I set up a desktop and laptop, so they can both see all incoming and sent mail and mail folders?

I use Demon as my POP3 and NTHell as my SMTP.
Demon do not do IMAP.
Outlook Express 5 or 6 do not allow you to have the mail folders mapped to a network drive, so I cannot have Desktop and Laptop pointing to the same shared folder on server.

Exchange costs £1000 and needs a new box to run on so thats out. Any suggestions?

Re: EMail Sharing
 

you could always install your own mail server... www.surgemail.com is free for home use.

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Anyone used

http://www.micro-byte.co.uk/outlook%2Dstore/index.html
or
http://www.mailtraq.com/
?
Look like they may do the job with IMAP as an option.

Re: EMail Sharing
 

I'm just starting to dabble in this stuff too - and I was looking for something simple that would work on a server, using my POP3 accounts. I'm not sure I'm ready to put toegther my own email server just yet...

I found this program called LANSuite. like some of the others here it is free for personal use or up to five users.

I found it pretty easy to set up and collect - the only thing I still need to do is set up the integrated webmail facility. In a nutshell it collects you POP3 internet mail, and from there you can send things off to different internal mailboxes. So for example, I have domain name forwarding for my main email account, so if it sees my name in the to line then it sticks it in my mailbox.

You tell it how often you want it to collect your mail, then you use your regular mail program to collect it on your internal network from LanSuite.

The cool bit (which I haven't made work yet, as I need to figure out port forwarding on my router properly) is the webmail feature. LANSuite also has an inbuilt webserver, and part of that allows you to login to your own server from any web browser, and see your mailboxes from there. They've just brought out a new version but I haven't tested it yet! Available at http://software602.com/

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Usefull links

http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/files....htm#storemain

http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/faqs/why.htm#network

So my copy of Outlook 2003 that came with Office SBE might help.

Hmm, how many machines can a copy of Office be loaded on? Is it one, or is it that it can be on two if they are only used one at a time.

Can they tell? Both will be at the same internet IP (behind the router).

Re: EMail Sharing
 

i have just looked on that site and i couldnt see anything about free for home use :confused: , or am i just being :dunce: :D

edit :- just found it , i was being thick :D

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http://www.surgemail.com/surgemail/pricing.htm

5 user licence **Free no SSL or support though.

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Are you going to try it? If you do can you let us know how you get on.

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I might give that a go myself

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Downloaded both 602LAN Suite & Surgemail.

I immediately took a dislike to Surgemail due to it opening a stack of ports and downloading stuff from "home" - I hit the ZA stop button till I sussed out what it was up to (which seems kosher enough now). Configuration looks a pain in backside. I guess it's probably very wizzy for a mail server, but I'm not going to give it the chance (bit OTT for my simple needs).

602LAN Suite was very easy to set up, didn't surprise me with anything.
It looks like a great software alternative for people to use instead of MS ICS.
I'm just using it as a POP mail aggregator, so I haven't configured the other proxies to run. The only thing missing which would make this a perfect little bundle is support for IMAP.

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I tried Surgemail over the weekend too....a little too complex for someone of my limited knowledge - although I can see that it is a great bit of kit (if you know what you're doing)!

Old...glad you liked LANSuite. I think they have a user forum so it's always worth suggesting IMAP as a future development.