Multiple Windows Live Mail computers and Window Home Server

Will Window Live Mail allow the Store Folder to be shared on a server like
Windows Home Server? I'm pretty sure the answer is YES. But... what could
go wrong if two people are using Windows Live Mail at the same time on
different computers using the shared Store Folder on WHS? The emails are
being downloaded from Comcast for all email addresses and placed in the
user's Inbox(s) and then automatically deleted from the Comcast Server.

The answer is NO. The store folder needs to be on a PC's local hard
drive.

I'm guessing this is a POP3 account. You can have all users/PCs
download all message from a POP3 mail server by selecting Tools,
Accounts, Mail, Properties, Advanced, Leave a copy of messages on the
server in all users/PCs. One or more of the users/PCs should be set to
delete messages from the server after a few days or else the server mail
account will eventually fill. However, Sent messages will only be saved
on the sending user/PC.

If your mail service offers IMAP mail server access, that is the way to
go. IMAP is designed for a single mail account to be shared by multiple
PCs. The IMAP mail is managed at the mail server.

If your mail service doesn't provide IMAP support, an option is to run
your own local mail server that accesses the mail service via POP3 and
then provides IMAP support to your local PCs. For examples of such a
programs, see:
Mercury Mail Transport System
http://www.pmail.com/overviews/ovw_mercury.htm
Hamster "Classic"
http://www.arcorhome.de/newshamster/...amster_en.html


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Mike - http://TechHelp.Santovec.us



"Ken" <> wrote in message
news:CE350C0C-C1C1-4301-A4D7-...
> Will Window Live Mail allow the Store Folder to be shared on a server
> like Windows Home Server? I'm pretty sure the answer is YES. But...
> what could go wrong if two people are using Windows Live Mail at the
> same time on different computers using the shared Store Folder on WHS?
> The emails are being downloaded from Comcast for all email addresses
> and placed in the user's Inbox(s) and then automatically deleted from
> the Comcast Server.

No...and doing so may cause corruption in WLM's message store index.

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...winston
ms-mvp mail

"Ken" <> wrote in message news:CE350C0C-C1C1-4301-A4D7-...
> Will Window Live Mail allow the Store Folder to be shared on a server like
> Windows Home Server? I'm pretty sure the answer is YES. But... what could
> go wrong if two people are using Windows Live Mail at the same time on
> different computers using the shared Store Folder on WHS? The emails are
> being downloaded from Comcast for all email addresses and placed in the
> user's Inbox(s) and then automatically deleted from the Comcast Server.
>

On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 16:11:28 -0600, Ken wrote:

> Will Window Live Mail allow the Store Folder to be shared on a server like
> Windows Home Server? I'm pretty sure the answer is YES. But... what could
> go wrong if two people are using Windows Live Mail at the same time on
> different computers using the shared Store Folder on WHS? The emails are
> being downloaded from Comcast for all email addresses and placed in the
> user's Inbox(s) and then automatically deleted from the Comcast Server.

Windows Live Mail does not like having its message store on a networked, or
removable drive. I've not tested with WLMail, but MS Outlook Express would
not actually "fail", but it would recreate the account file structure
locally if it could not find the removable, or networked resource.

Does Windows Home Server not include a mail server? What I do with Windows
(formerly ME, but now upgraded to XP HE) is run a third party MTA:
Mercury/32. This includes a POP3 client which can poll any number of POP3
accounts, and place the downloaded email in defined user accounts on the
Windows computer. Then I configure Mercury/32 as a local IMAP server. I
point any local (networked) client at the computer running Mercury/32, and
set up an IMAP account in that local client.

I really don't know all of the capabilities of Windows Home Server; but, I
would expect it to include at least a rudimentary version of the MS IIS
Virtual SMTP server, and, hopefully, allow for setting up an IMAP server. Or
something akin to an Exchange server, which should work as well. Otherwise
it wouldn't really be a useful "Home Server" system.

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum

OK. It's off to the Windows Home Server forum to see if they got a
solution. Thanks everyone for the input.

"Ken" <> wrote in message
news:CE350C0C-C1C1-4301-A4D7-...
> Will Window Live Mail allow the Store Folder to be shared on a server like
> Windows Home Server? I'm pretty sure the answer is YES. But... what
> could go wrong if two people are using Windows Live Mail at the same time
> on different computers using the shared Store Folder on WHS? The emails
> are being downloaded from Comcast for all email addresses and placed in
> the user's Inbox(s) and then automatically deleted from the Comcast
> Server.

Waste of time. There is nothing Home Server can do that will overcome
this mail client limitation.

--
Gary VanderMolen, Microsoft MVP (Mail)
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/def...le/vandermolen


"Ken" <> wrote in message news:BC438556-4DC4-4B6E-BAC5-...
> OK. It's off to the Windows Home Server forum to see if they got a
> solution. Thanks everyone for the input.
>
> "Ken" <> wrote in message
> news:CE350C0C-C1C1-4301-A4D7-...
>> Will Window Live Mail allow the Store Folder to be shared on a server like
>> Windows Home Server? I'm pretty sure the answer is YES. But... what
>> could go wrong if two people are using Windows Live Mail at the same time
>> on different computers using the shared Store Folder on WHS? The emails
>> are being downloaded from Comcast for all email addresses and placed in
>> the user's Inbox(s) and then automatically deleted from the Comcast
>> Server.
>

On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 08:28:53 -0800, Gary VanderMolen wrote:

> Waste of time. There is nothing Home Server can do that will overcome
> this mail client limitation.

Windows Home Server does not include IMAP server capability? What a waste of
good money, considering there are a number of free, and low cost MTA
applications which can run under Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7,
and do just that.

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum

The answer is still No. WHS does not include by design, third party, or hack the ability to accomplish that task.

--
...winston
ms-mvp mail

"Ken" <> wrote in message news:BC438556-4DC4-4B6E-BAC5-...
> OK. It's off to the Windows Home Server forum to see if they got a
> solution. Thanks everyone for the input.
>
> "Ken" <> wrote in message
> news:CE350C0C-C1C1-4301-A4D7-...
>> Will Window Live Mail allow the Store Folder to be shared on a server like
>> Windows Home Server? I'm pretty sure the answer is YES. But... what
>> could go wrong if two people are using Windows Live Mail at the same time
>> on different computers using the shared Store Folder on WHS? The emails
>> are being downloaded from Comcast for all email addresses and placed in
>> the user's Inbox(s) and then automatically deleted from the Comcast
>> Server.
>

Yep. The WHS server group got back to me in an hour and said no way. I got
greedy. WHS does a super job of backing up my systems and storing shared
data. I'll leave it at that.


"Ken" <> wrote in message
news:BC438556-4DC4-4B6E-BAC5-...
> OK. It's off to the Windows Home Server forum to see if they got a
> solution. Thanks everyone for the input.
>
> "Ken" <> wrote in message
> news:CE350C0C-C1C1-4301-A4D7-...
>> Will Window Live Mail allow the Store Folder to be shared on a server
>> like Windows Home Server? I'm pretty sure the answer is YES. But...
>> what could go wrong if two people are using Windows Live Mail at the
>> same time on different computers using the shared Store Folder on WHS?
>> The emails are being downloaded from Comcast for all email addresses and
>> placed in the user's Inbox(s) and then automatically deleted from the
>> Comcast Server.
>

As we surmised. But thanks for reporting back.

--
Gary VanderMolen, Microsoft MVP (Mail)
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/def...le/vandermolen


"Ken" <> wrote in message news:C306F3E7-3F4E-4880-9B1F-...
> Yep. The WHS server group got back to me in an hour and said no way. I got
> greedy. WHS does a super job of backing up my systems and storing shared
> data. I'll leave it at that.
>
>
> "Ken" <> wrote in message
> news:BC438556-4DC4-4B6E-BAC5-...
>> OK. It's off to the Windows Home Server forum to see if they got a
>> solution. Thanks everyone for the input.
>>
>> "Ken" <> wrote in message
>> news:CE350C0C-C1C1-4301-A4D7-...
>>> Will Window Live Mail allow the Store Folder to be shared on a server
>>> like Windows Home Server? I'm pretty sure the answer is YES. But...
>>> what could go wrong if two people are using Windows Live Mail at the
>>> same time on different computers using the shared Store Folder on WHS?
>>> The emails are being downloaded from Comcast for all email addresses and
>>> placed in the user's Inbox(s) and then automatically deleted from the
>>> Comcast Server.
>>