Dawn Light wrote:
An inefficient E-mail setup in a small office needs to be replaced with a
better solution. I ask for your wise advice.
In a landscape architecture office, there are several Windows XP workstations
for the architects to do their design work with. One of those workstations has
a common E-mail client installed which works with one E-mail account provided
by the ISP. It receives from it using POP3 and sends to it using SMTP, as
commonly done.
Some incoming messages are "adressed" to the office and some are "addressed" to
the various architects ( There is only one E-mail address). Thus anyone who wishes to read his
incoming messages and send messages needs to physically go and use the workstation with the mail
client. This, if you haven't guessed already, it somewhat uncomfortable for daily work in the
office.
The requirements are that all messages, inbox and sent, would be available to
access from all of the workstations and that it would be possible to send
messages from all workstations, also. This is still using the single account
provided by the ISP.
I would appreciate it if I was described of a setup that should answer these
requirements effieciently, including the protocols and software involved. I am
willing to learn whatever skills required for this.
Any suggestions and comments about anything, including the phrasing of this
message, are welcome and your help will be accepted with gratitude.
If ISP offers IMAP, configure mail clients all work stations to use IMAP
to access the email box at the ISP.
If no IMAP is offered, next easiest to do is to enable the "keep mail on
server" option in the POP3 settings and configure all work stations to
use POP3. In ALL works stations enable the "Keep mail on server" option.
Otherwise a local mail server is the solution but it is a bit more
complex than the above two methods.
Mihira.
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"Not many people know when love really starts...
More than a friend, but not quite lovers.
A delicate relationship like this changes gradually once it is noticed,
and keeps on blossoming, Just like the changing seasons."
-- Kanzaki Kyoichi
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