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Joe McGuire
I am looking for advice on how to set up OL 2003. I am organizing my now
solo law practice to run out of my home office. I have been using OL for
years for personal use (with WinXP) on my home (and home office) laptop and
also for years for my work (on a different computer/system) originally with
Exchange with different firms I have been associated with but more recently
in stand-alone mode to which I have remote access. My business e-mail goes
to an e-mail server and then to OL on that remote PC and also to my PDA (a
new Blackberry at the moment). Personal e-mail goes through Comcast.
However, I plan to switch the work e-mail to a Comcast business plan that,
as I understand it, provides an on-line Microsoft Exchange Server and a
unique e-mail domain name. Exchange sounds very advantageous--and I won't
have to worry about having to be the IT guy.
My question is how best to configure OL 2003 on my home/home office
computer. I think I want to keep all the work e-mail separate from the
personal stuff in all respects (Inbox, Junk, Sent, Archive etc.). I am not
sure that merely having separate Inboxes for each e-mail account is a great
answer--examples: I don't want to reply to a work e-mail on my personal
account; Sometimes good work e-mail ends up in the Junk box and I have to
mark it as Not Junk and restore it to the (correct) Inbox. On the other
hand, I'd prefer to have only one calendar. At present I accomplish that by
simply keeping all my appointments, personal and otherwise, on my work
version of OL. Contacts? At present I have work Contacts on the work
version of OL and personal on the other, but combining these might be
simpler. Actually there's already a fair degree of overlap.
Should I set up two different profiles for OL? Is that the term? Does this
provide the maximum separation between work and personal? Can I run both at
the same time or do I have to log out of one to get to the other? Or
(horrors!) do I have to reboot the computer to switch between the two? (A
deal killer!) Is there a middle ground short of total separation that I
should consider?
I appreciate any help figuring this out.
solo law practice to run out of my home office. I have been using OL for
years for personal use (with WinXP) on my home (and home office) laptop and
also for years for my work (on a different computer/system) originally with
Exchange with different firms I have been associated with but more recently
in stand-alone mode to which I have remote access. My business e-mail goes
to an e-mail server and then to OL on that remote PC and also to my PDA (a
new Blackberry at the moment). Personal e-mail goes through Comcast.
However, I plan to switch the work e-mail to a Comcast business plan that,
as I understand it, provides an on-line Microsoft Exchange Server and a
unique e-mail domain name. Exchange sounds very advantageous--and I won't
have to worry about having to be the IT guy.
My question is how best to configure OL 2003 on my home/home office
computer. I think I want to keep all the work e-mail separate from the
personal stuff in all respects (Inbox, Junk, Sent, Archive etc.). I am not
sure that merely having separate Inboxes for each e-mail account is a great
answer--examples: I don't want to reply to a work e-mail on my personal
account; Sometimes good work e-mail ends up in the Junk box and I have to
mark it as Not Junk and restore it to the (correct) Inbox. On the other
hand, I'd prefer to have only one calendar. At present I accomplish that by
simply keeping all my appointments, personal and otherwise, on my work
version of OL. Contacts? At present I have work Contacts on the work
version of OL and personal on the other, but combining these might be
simpler. Actually there's already a fair degree of overlap.
Should I set up two different profiles for OL? Is that the term? Does this
provide the maximum separation between work and personal? Can I run both at
the same time or do I have to log out of one to get to the other? Or
(horrors!) do I have to reboot the computer to switch between the two? (A
deal killer!) Is there a middle ground short of total separation that I
should consider?
I appreciate any help figuring this out.