Easiest way to do it is to have Outlook keep a copy on the server and
not pull it off.  It should be in the Tools/Options/Mail Delivery Tab. 
If I recall, I'm not in Win2k so I can't tell you for certain.


On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 11:30, Richard Crawford wrote:
> Here's the deal.
> 
> My wife and I have an RH8.0 server at home which is used primarily for
> e-mail (so far).  We have it set up so that when we're at home we check
> our e-mail on the server with Outlook (her) or Evolution (me).
> 
> Every now and then one of us forgets to turn off our e-mail program when
> we go off to work, meaning we can't check it remotely with Squirrelmail
> when we're on the road (since the e-mail clients pull the mail off the
> server before we can see it in SM).  Not a problem for me, since I can SSH
> to my own computer and shutdown Evolution from the command line and use
> Mutt to check anything important I might have missed.  But since my wife
> uses Windoze we can't ssh into her machine to shut off Outlook.
> 
> So I'm trying to figure out how I can set things up so that my wife can
> check her mail with SM when she forgets to turn off Outlook.
> 
> One thought I had was SSH'ing into the mail server and fixing the hosts
> table to disallow access from her computer, so that when Outlook tries to
> access the mail server it gets an error.  How, exactly, would I do that? 
> And what are some other options?
> 
> 
> Sliante,
> Richard S. Crawford
> 
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