Hi; Does anyone know how to manage outlook email on 2 pc's? I have a laptop with WIN XP home that I want to leave at home, and I want to buy a new Desktop to leave at work. I want to access my outlook email accounts from home without managing 2 separate setups (2 sent email folders, 2 inboxes, etc.). Anyone know how to do it? thanks Jeff

From typing Remote Mail into Outlook Help you will get this:

Use Remote Mail
You must set up your computer with a modem, a telephone, dial-up networking software, and a mail delivery service to use Remote Mail. Once you're set up, you connect and download the message headers to screen out the messages you don't want to download. Mark the message headers to download, copy, or delete messages. Then reconnect and download your messages.

If it is not set up already, set up your computer for Remote Mail.
How?

Connect to a server and download message headers.
How?

Mark message headers to download, copy, or delete messages.
How?

Connect to a server and transfer the messages.
How?

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Also I see elsewhere that third party software helps.

These are 2 freeware programs that I found suggested:

http://www.realvnc.com/

http://www.tightvnc.com/


Also I see to have your settings set to leave copy of messages on your server.
this page gives instructions how to change that setting (although its' intention is to turn off the setting):


How to Set Up Outlook 2000 to Not Leave Copy of Messages on Mail Server



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Thanks very much for the reply. VNC looks very interesting, I will check it out. I also found Remote desktop at Programs/accessories/communication/remote desktop communication on my XP home computer. Anyone use this sucessfully?

here is some reading:

remote desktop communication

RealVNC is great. I use it on all my PCs and servers on our company network for remotely viewing the desktops of those machines from my laptop. That's whilst I'm on the fast network usually - it does work when I dial in from home on a 56k line but it's noticeably slower. A colleague of mine uses TightVNC for a couple of his PCs - he reckons it's a bit faster.

Remote Desktop Connection or whatever it's called ought to be better over a decent line speed as it's been designed specifically for Windows XP.

Bear in mind that, for remote viewing to work, you need to have dial-up or VPN access to your corporate network, with permissions to access your desktop PC from your laptop and that the desktop PC must be left switched on and must not go into standby or hibernate power-saving modes after a certain amount of time unless it will wake up when you try to access it over the network. The desktop PC will also need to be running the remote connection software as a service otherwise you'll need to leave it logged on all the time.