Multiple users in Outlook

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I have a PC running XP Pro and there are 4 users with separate profiles who log onto the machine. We have one email address supplied by the ISP, and the users can all send and receive mail using this email address, but with their own "identity" in the "From" box

The problem is that when any user decides to download mail, all of the other users mail is downloaded into that users mailbox, and the next user to try a download will see nothing if there is no new mail to download

Is there a way to set up Outlook to automatically download mail into one central mailbox, and interpret (and forward) mail based on the "identity" created for each user

Thanks in advanc
 
Hmmm....is there some reason you can't just get separate e-mail addresses?
If you set the mail profiles such that they don't remove messages from the
server, the mailbox will eventually fill up and reject mail.
 
It's just too darned expensive, the ISP wants to charge an additional $12.00 per month per additional email address, and we're locked in to an 18 month contract before we can sign up with someone a little more user-friendly
 
Gad! For about $15, you can get a full Exchange account for everyone.
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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
Hmmm....is there some reason you can't just get separate e-mail addresses?
If you set the mail profiles such that they don't remove messages from the
server, the mailbox will eventually fill up and reject mail.
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Not if you set the account to leave mail on server and delete when removed
from deleted items folder or in this case even better leave on server for a
certain number of days.

This option makes it possible to look into a mailbox from different places,
locations, computers, programs, etc. without the mailbox getting full.

--DeLa
 
Exchange is Microsoft's email/collaboration server -- see http://www.slipstick.com/exs/index.htm.

Please take the time to quote the original message so that people reading your current response can understand what you're talking about. Otherwise, you may not receive the answer you're looking for.
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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
True, but this gets very unwieldy very quickly - with four users, I predict
that there will be some data lost somewhere.
"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
Hmmm....is there some reason you can't just get separate e-mail
addresses? If you set the mail profiles such that they don't remove
messages from the server, the mailbox will eventually fill up and
reject mail.
Click to expand...

Not if you set the account to leave mail on server and delete when
removed from deleted items folder or in this case even better leave
on server for a certain number of days.

This option makes it possible to look into a mailbox from different
places, locations, computers, programs, etc. without the mailbox
getting full.

--DeLa





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