My wife would like to have a second computer near the kitchen for here
business. Sharing files is no problem with a network. Email is more
of a problem. Is it possible to setup up your email so you can have
all the same email on both computers, so it identical? Even your
send folder to have the same history. Thanks.

the way i think it is...

think so - though webmail may be a solution for the sent folder

though, i maybe considered a leech - pole, please...

if i can get what i desie for free... what's to stop me?

"lbbss" yahoo.com> Is it possible to setup up your email so you
can have

For this you would need an email client system that is server based, and
using the proper email client software. This would not be very practical
for at home.

Maybe someone here on the groups has a simple idea...

I have a simple system at my home using a laptop and a desktop. They are
both on line, and can access my email account. I have the laptop set up
so that it does not delete the emails when it downloads them. It is set
up to check for and retrieve emails automatically every 10 minutes. I
have the desktop set the same way.

About once a week, I log in to my ISP remote email access for my account
and do a cleanup. This is once I am sure that the both computers have
the newest emails downloaded. If you don't want to have to log in to do
a cleanup, you can always temporarily set one of the computers to delete
the emails on the ISP server after doing the download. The default is
to delete emails on the ISP server after downloading.

As for having the sent emails on both computers to be the same, this
will require the need to for an email client system, as I mentioned
above.

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Ibbss

With Outlook, though not officially sanctioned, you can have more than one
PC access the same personal store file (usually Outlook.pst)
The trick is to place the pst file in a shared folder and set each PC's copy
of Outlook to use this shared pst file via your LAN.
Downside is only one PC at a time can use the pst file at a time.
i.e. if PC 1 has it open PC 2 will display an error until PC 1 has exited
from Outlook.

I haven't the same trick with Outlook Express but it may work, up to you to
experiment, unless someone else has tried it and can comment.

"lbbss"

Your post doesn't show on many systems because you are posting from
googlegroups. I accessed it from the References line of those who
answered you. I filter googlegroupers because they don't ask questions
very well, such as naming the operating system and mailuser agent in
question.

You can synchronize the email files and folders of two networked
computers either by using the same store folder for the mail app's
folderfiles or by using the synchronizing app Briefcase, which is still
available in XP except that it is accessed/created with the command Run
syncapp instead of the way it works in Win98.

And can you close outlook #1 from computer #2? Or do I need to
physically go to computer 1 and close it. And obviously both
computers need to be powered on. thanks for your replies.

I have xp and MS outlook 2003. so if one email is marked as read on
computer 1, will it also be marked as read on comp 2?

lbbss wrote:

The simplest way to do this using standard mail clients is to use a mail
provider (Or your own internal mail server) that supports IMAP.

I see others have suggested sharing the data files, in my opinion and
experience this is a very bad idea and is highly likely to lead to user
confusion at best and at worst data corruption.

lbbss wrote:

Besides the other suggestions, you could keep email on just
one computer and run something like UltraVNC (free) to remote
control your email program from the second computer.

So with the remote you can see from computer 1 what is on computer 2
screen (as if you were physically there). And you could open
emails on computer 2, from computer 1? is that correct? thank.