sharing email

[dave154304]

Hopefull this is a simple question. I have a desktop computer (WinXP) and a laptop PC (Vista) that I would like to share email between on a simple home network. I currently use Outlook Express for email (on the XP machine). If I upgrade to a better email program (Outlook, or anything else), is there a way that I could download email from either machine to a shared database? Same question goes for address book etc.

I've thought about just not downloading the email from my ISP server - but they don't offer a lot of room, so I get nasty grams from them all the time.

The perfect situation would be I could fire up the email program on either PC and see all messages in both places.

Thanks in advance for your help.

[NooNoo]

The only way to do that is to have some sort of email server (which your isp has). ISP mailboxes are getting better at space - what ISP do you have?

There are some 3rd party programs that allow you to share the files in which the emails are kept locally, but I haven't used any so I don't have a recommendation for that.

[dave154304]

I have broadband through Time Warner Cable. They offer fairly good email server space, but I get some larger audio files emailed to me - and they don't support enough space for that.

I was obviously hoping for some software that would do this without an email server. If anybody has any suggestions, I'd appreciate it - and the search with continue.

Thanks again.

[slgrieb]

One possibility would be saving the emails as files in a shared folder. You wouldn't have shared access to all your email, but you would have easy access to important ones.

[Gabriel]

Not exactly what you think of - but you might want to consider-
Why not using Web based Email? there are doesns of services (some free some not).
For instance - Try http://mail.nanaportal.com/?rl=en - where you have Outlook Web access interface and 3GB of storage.

Gmail is also good...

But if you want to work on "real" outlook - try
http://www.publicshareware.com/


Cheers,
Gabriel