On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 14:18, Zot O'Connor wrote: > On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 11:11, Alexander Nolting wrote: > > Hello Zot, > > > > To Outlook: It does. Different users have to login in a stand > > alone installation with their own profiles. Outlook stores the > > data in different .pst files for each user. > > What do you mean "stand alone installation?" If I have 4 pop accounts, > does outlook (or Outlook Express) require me to log out and log into > windows again?
Pardon my jumping in here, but having faced the same challenge with a client I think I understand what you are looking for Zot. Outlook and Outlook Express have the same functionality, but with different labels. Let's talk about Outlook first. And let's assume that the user isn't connecting to an Exchange server, just POP. When a user logs in to Windows under a local or domain user account and sets up Outlook, Outlook creates a "profile" for that user's use. Outlook also creates one *.pst file for each profile, typically located in the user's Documents and Settings directory on the hard drive, and stores all Tasks, Emails, Contacts, Calendars, etc. for that profile in that pst file. If the user has four different POP accounts, the user may add each account to the current profile. If that is done, all of the incoming emails from all of the POP accounts are deposited together in the one Inbox of that profile. If you want to keep separate Inboxes, you have some choices: First, you can use Outlook Rules to filter incoming email by the "To:" field, and deposit the email in separate folders. This separates the email but provides no security. (This also won't work well with mailing lists.) The user using that profile will have access to all folders in that profile. All of the POP accounts emails are also kept in one pst file. This is the most convenient solution for fast switching between accounts (although you are really not switching accounts at all, just looking in different folders). Second, you can create separate Outlook profiles (meaning separate pst files) for each POP account. This keeps the Inboxes separate, and requires you to close Outlook, choose a different profile, and then restart Outlook to get to a different POP account. You can configure Outlook to prompt you as to which profile you want to use when it starts up. This still provides no security, but makes it impossible to accidently mix up emails from different accounts. (Running multiple instances of Outlook to get around this is not possible.) Third, you can create separate local Windows or domain accounts for each POP account. This provides some security in Windows 2000 or better on an NTFS file system, because Windows uses ACLs to prevent one user from looking at another user's private folders, like their *.pst file. But, this also means you must log off and then log back in to Windows each time you want to look at a different POP account. Not very convenient. Outlook Express works pretty much the same way. Outlook Profiles are called "Identities" in Outlook Express, and you can switch Identities without having to close and relaunch Outlook Express. I hope this is helpful... > > Thanks! > > > > > Regards > > Alexander Nolting <snip> -- ______________________________________________________________ L. Mark Stone President Reliable Networks of Maine, LLC 477 Congress Street, 5th Floor Portland, ME 04107 Tel: (207) 772-5678 Cell: (917) 597-2057 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.RNoME.com _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
