Send&receive at Work and Home

[Mark]

Some time ago I left a similar message and had a couple of kind
responses, but have not had a solution to this question.


Having problems setting up Send/receive at Work and Home.

Windows XP SP3 & Outlook 2007.

Receiving email is OK at both work and home. But send from home is a
problem as I connect to my private ISP at home and need to use that
account to send.

So when I'm working out of the office I need to change the account
settings for 'Outgoing mail server' to smtp.privateISP.net, when I'm
back in my office I need to remember to change it back again to
smtp.work.net


What I have tried so far:
1. I tried enabling authentication for my work SMTP server as
described in http://www.msoutlook.info/question/36, but it did not
work.

2. Set up different accounts one for home and one for work. Works fine
except when I click on reply from one sent from the account that I'm
not on at the time - then the email just sits in the Outbox. Problem
is if I don't notice it or remember (in my busy life) and it sits
there unsent. I know I can change the account before I send, but its
easy to miss this step. So not an ideal solution.

Next:
3. Tried to set up a Registry entry that I could change when at work
and at home. i.e. have a Work.reg and home.reg file that I click on to
change Outlook in registry for either/or. Could not get it to work.
Is pesky anyway as you have to restart things to get it to work.
(But maybe an approach to consider).

4. I set up 2 Profiles. One for work and one for home. It is set to
ask me which one to use. Worked fine for a long time. However I have
now bought a PDA (windows 6.1) and it won't connect to both profiles -
it gives the Activesync 8503001f error. Searching through the various
sites MS, etc., I can't find a solution to this. The word seems to be
that you cannot connect to 2 profiles full stop.


A macro or something to click on at work then at home seems the only
solution that I can see. But this is beyond my expertise at this
point.

So, any ideas?

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Cheers
Mark

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

4. I set up 2 Profiles. One for work and one for home. It is set to
ask me which one to use. Worked fine for a long time. However I have
now bought a PDA (windows 6.1) and it won't connect to both profiles -
it gives the Activesync 8503001f error. Searching through the various
sites MS, etc., I can't find a solution to this. The word seems to be
that you cannot connect to 2 profiles full stop.

Why do you need to sync with both profiles? ActiveSync can sync with two PCs,
but I've never tried to choose a second profile on the same PC. If you need
to see the data in one profile in the the other, just add the work PST to the
Home profile as a second PST. Add the home PST to the Work profile as a
second PST if you really want to have both sets of data available no matter
which profile.

 

[Mark]

Why do you need to sync with both profiles?  ActiveSync can sync with two PCs,
but I've never tried to choose a second profile on the same PC.  If youneed
to see the data in one profile in the the other, just add the work PST tothe
Home profile as a second PST.  Add the home PST to the Work profile as a
second PST if you really want to have both sets of data available no matter
which profile.

Thanks Brian

I've tried this but now I have another problem - if I send an email
using Work profile, and a reply comes back when I'm in the Home
profile, when I click reply it actually tries to send this reply using
the Work profile (though I'm now at Home) and the email just sits in
the Outbox. So this doesn't work satisfactory either.

Cheers
Mark

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

I've tried this but now I have another problem - if I send an email
using Work profile, and a reply comes back when I'm in the Home
profile, when I click reply it actually tries to send this reply using
the Work profile (though I'm now at Home) and the email just sits in
the Outbox. So this doesn't work satisfactory either.

Unless you have a work account defined in the Home profile, I don't see how
you could receive work messages.

Create a Work account for the Home profile. It can use the same settings as
you do for your personal account, but specify your work address instead of
your home address and set the Send/Receive group to not receive for that
account. Then you can select that account when you reply.