RE: FN-FORUM: Shared email charset="US-ASCII"

date posted 26th July 2005 19:21

Have you considered IMAP?

> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Andy Macnaughton-Jones
> Sent: 26 July 2005 19:48
> To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: RE: FN-FORUM: Shared email charset=3D"US-ASCII"
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> That's what they're doing at the moment and it's getting=20
> horribly complicated because nobody knows who's doing what=20
> and there's only 3 of them ! Questions like "what happens if=20
> I send a mail, will it appear in their outbox ?" Well, no,=20
> because they're separate so you'd have to remember to make a=20
> copy back to yourslef then you'd download it and it would=20
> appear in each persons box. They're not particularly=20
> technical - I'd like them to use exchange but realistically=20
> that's going to cost about =A31K by the time we've bought the=20
> SBS 5 user version, more memory (or bought a cheap dell=20
> server), A decent A/V scanner etc.etc.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On=20
> Behalf Of Nathan Vingoe
> Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 7:27 PM
> To: Andy Macnaughton-Jones
> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Shared email charset=3D"US-ASCII"
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> Not convinced the web mail system is the best idea..
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> use a normal email client, so they all have the same=20
> experience. Set it to collect the mail, but leave the mail=20
> on the server. That way, all three collect the mail. you=20
> may want to clarify, who does get to delete=20
> stuff.. most clients allow leave on server, and also a facility to=20
> delete, if read, after x days.
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> At 13:47 26/07/2005, you wrote:
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> >Hi,
> > I've a client who needs to share a single email account between 3=20
> >PC's. Normally I'd recommend using Small Business Server=20
> with Exchange=20
> >but they don't want to pay that amount or use the type of faciities=20
> >that exchange provides.
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> >All they need is to be able to have a single mailbox on one=20
> PC that's=20
> >accessible - maybe via webmail to this PC. They're all=20
> networked up and=20
> >have the main office pc is running XP Pro.=3D20
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> >Is there a webmail solution that can do this ? Something=20
> open source or=20
> >relatively cheap ? There is another spare unused "old"=20
> machine which I=20
> >guess could have a Linux based thing installed but I know=20
> nothing about=20
> >Linux.
> >
> >Cheers
> >Andy
> >
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