On 02/11/2005, at 11:43 PM, Severin Crisp wrote:
Most of our mail goes via my computer which regularly checks
incoming mail on the four accounts that are set up. For filing it
is vital that everything can be filed by me on my computer. A
small subset of the mail is handled via my wife's computer.
Incoming is no problem, it all comes to me and her computer's Mail
account is set to leave mail on the server. The only problem is
outgoing mail from my wife's machine. I have tried putting her
"sent" mail into my Sent folder but Mail does not seem to recognise
it. If she were to always send a bcc addressed to me that would
solve the problem but be clumsy and prone to the bcc copy being
forgotten sometimes.
There must be a way to do this.
Why?
Am I missing something? Both computers are on 10.3.4 with file
sharing enabled.
Your mail account is clearly using POP, since you say your wife's
computer is set to leave mail on the Server. This is a POP function.
POP is designed to work on private (ie, not shared) computers. It
checks the designated accounts and servers for which you have
configured your email client, and downloads the corresponding
messages to YOUR computer. Any mail you send is recorded in YOUR
email client. Since you have told your email client to leave the mail
on the Server for a specified period of time, your wife also has the
chance to download her mail to her computer as well, but any mail she
sends is recorded by HER email client. The bcc approach may seem
clumsy, but it's probably the most efficient way to do what you want
using POP. Setting up a simple mail rule or a Smart Folder (if you're
using Apple Mail and Tiger) would help streamline the process for you.
The only alternatives for you as I see it are
1. see if Westnet offers an IMAP option for email. With IMAP, all
your mail is handled on the Server directly, and all users can see
the shared resources, such as Sent Mail. You can set IMAP to download
mail to your computer if you like, but it's not compulsory. IMAP can
be a problem for commercial ISPs, since it relies on the clients to
manage the mail on the Server, and mail boxes can fill up very
quickly if they're not managed properly,
or
2. run your own mail server. Probably not an option, and a bit of
overkill for a relatively minor problem.
I'll leave it for others to come up with something more enlightened...
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Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services
FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer
Perth, Western Australia
Phone (618) 9332 6482 Fax (618) 9332 0913
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