On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 09:35:39 +1000, Andy Eager wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way to have Outlook Express & Netscape
> mail share messages ? (IE: Have a message read from the POP
> server by Outlook and readable in both Outlook & Netscape,
> whithout doing the obvious and forwarding / rereading)
other people have suggested leaving mail on the server, which
works, but isn't ideal.
unfortunately, Outlook and Netscape have completely different
foramts for storing their mail data. Netscape uses unix mbox
folders, Outlook uses its own proprietry format.
i believe there may be some programs to convert between
Outlook/mbox ... check Freshmeat about this (email me privately
if you still need help.)
another solution is to use Eudora. iirc, it uses mbox to use
its messages as well, so Eudora will work nicely with Netscape.
this may not be possible, of course, but i just thought i'd
point it out.
> I tried setting the location of the message store to my 'Z:'
> drive but it would have any of it. Upon checking with the MS
> site, I found that OE had to use 'local media'.
>
> This is surely crazy in this world of shared data...
probably because Microsoft wants to prevent having any sort of
data corruption. (you _cannot_ have a common folder by having
two copies of Outlook running on different computers pointing to
the same mail store, otherwise corruption occurs, in a big, ugly
way.)
of course, this is also why MS want you to fork out money for
Exchange ...
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