New to Outlook 2007 - how to configure on peer-to-peer

[Jon Griffey]

Hi all

HELP!

I have just installed Outlook 2007 on our network, having decided with
some sadness to ditch our old Turnpike software.

Our system is a simple peer-to-peer network of 10 or so PC's running
Windows XP (32 bit). One of the machines is nominated as the server and
holds the usual data (word docs etc) to which the workstations point.
The email is collected by the Turnpike program on the server from the
ISP via POP3.

With our Turnpike software, you just point the workstations to the
directory on the server that holds all the emails and hey presto you
have email data available on the whole network. Nice and easy.

I cannot seem to replicate this set up under Outlook. It seems like you
have to set up email profiles on each machine and the emails are
collected/delivered from the ISP individually by each machine and stored
locally.

Is there any way round this? I understand that I could resolve it by
installing MS Exchange Server, but this requires 64 bit Windows (?) and
we are quite happy using POP3.

If there are plug-ins commercially available then any recommendations
would be welcome.

Cheers!

 

[Brian Tillman]

With our Turnpike software, you just point the workstations to the
directory on the server that holds all the emails and hey presto you
have email data available on the whole network. Nice and easy.

I cannot seem to replicate this set up under Outlook. It seems like
you have to set up email profiles on each machine and the emails are
collected/delivered from the ISP individually by each machine and
stored locally.

Correct. Outlook, like all POP/SMTP clients, requires a mail server to
perform the message routing duties. It in itself is not a router.

Is there any way round this?
No.

I understand that I could resolve it by
installing MS Exchange Server, but this requires 64 bit Windows (?)

Exchange 2003 will run on 32 bit servers and will support Outlook 2007,
although there a some features of Outlook 2007 that are not available unless
connected to an Exchange 2007 server.

and we are quite happy using POP3.

There are plenty of Windows-based POP/SMTP servers available for purchase
and there are also some available free. Windows Server 2003 comes with a
built-in POP/SMTP server as well and will run on 32 bit systems. If you
wish to host your own mail service for internal use only, there's nothing to
stop you. I don't know much about the WIndows Serrver 2003 Email services,
but I can conceive of it being able to act as Turnpike did.

 

[Diane Poremsky]

You will need profiles in outlook but if you can access the mail using IMAP,
it will stay on the server.

From what I understand, turnpike can act as an imap or pop server and if
not, there are free or low cost pop and imap servers you can run locally -
they would pull the mail from the isp mailboxes and store it in your network
so the clients don't have to connect to the network.