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Is there a desktop email client that allows the data file to be shared?


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I have 3 PC's in my house - 1 in the computer room, 1 in the living room and the other in my patio.

What I want is a desktop email client that will allow me (if needed) to have the email program open on 1 or more of the PC's at the same time and for it to share the data file (at the same time)

Is there such a program??

Thanks in advance

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I have 3 PC's in my house - 1 in the computer room, 1 in the living room and the other in my patio.

What I want is a desktop email client that will allow me (if needed) to have the email program open on 1 or more of the PC's at the same time and for it to share the data file (at the same time)

Is there such a program??

Thanks in advance

I'm thinking, maybe you could run your own local mail server (that pulls from your main email). The 3 computers can then run any IMAP client of choice, tapping from the local server.

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The biggest problem you have there is consequitive writes from the same mailbox. You may find that a hosted MS Exchange account will do everything you need for mail, calendar and contacts. You can have multiple connections to that inc from web mail.

If you only need email, you could look at moving to IMAP, then you can have multiple connections to the same inbox, but sent items and deleted are not usually in sync.

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I'm thinking, maybe you could run your own local mail server (that pulls from your main email). The 3 computers can then run any IMAP client of choice, tapping from the local server.

Many Thanks for the info - any recommendations??

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If you are only using a small number of accounts, check that your current provider doesn't offer IMAP as a home server is overkill and needs some security considerations.

If you are Windows based then you can't go wrong with hMailServer. It supports external account downloading into secific mailboxes.

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