R�ponse suit --- Jay a �crit de l'adresse <mailto: "Jay" [EMAIL PROTECTED]> le 3/02/04 22:50:
>Like many of you, as the expression goes, "I have to use a PC at work, >but I GET to use a Mac at home." I regularly check my company email from >home or on the road on my iBook. <snip> >Does anybody know how I can work this out (besides the obvious option of >working for a Mac-based company)? :-) You just received replies I cannot comment on, not being knowledgeable about these technical issue. There is, however, another solution that I use with a company which appears to be far more windows-centric than yours. The description is below, if it can be of any use to you. At the office, we use a windows environment and use an Exchange mail server and Outlook on windows XP to access email. I don't fancy Outlook and don't use the portable PC at home or when I travel (for the same reasons as yours, apparently). The IT gurus in my company refused (1) to set up a POP access to office mail (on the grounds that POP mailboxes are a potential security risk), (2) to set up IMAP access accessible through Eudora or Mail (again, potential security risk is the reason). You can call yourself lucky they agreed to set-up a POP mailbox. After lengthy tests and questioning, I realised that, on an Exchange server, there is no way to redirect mail by yourself, including using specific scripts (rights are denied on the server, again on the grounds of security risk) unless authorised by IT (denied after over 12 months of lies, in my particular case, for security reason). So it appeared hopeless. The 18-months discussion solution was to redirect ALL of my incoming mail from the Exchange server, 365 days a year, on instructions from our IT gurus themselves, and they agreed to do so (don't ask me why the security risk is less this way). I got it to be redirected to a compuserve box reserved for junk mail, porn and office mail (this seems like a private joke). I presently still do archiving at the office (600+ Mo per year including attachments). Maybe I will change that also, but there is no urgency and Outlook archiving system is efficient (at least, credit for something which works !). Then I have created on Emailer the appropriate mail account(s) for my ADSL home connection and for on-the road connections via Wanadoo in France or Compuserve worldwide, taking the mail from there, and placing it in dedicated mailbaxes after serious filtering (junk and Porn are unbelievably resilient on Compuserve these days), and having my office address as a from address to avoid polluting my real address (below) by office mail. Of course I receive tons of mail and attachments this way, but I can cut message size to 100k when travelling away from the ADSL line. It works. In fact, my work is far more efficient using my iBook at home or travelling that using the portable PC and Outlook at the office. Did anyone say "productivity" ? Sigh ! HTH -- Jean-Pierre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
