[Nfbf-l] Outlook compatibility patch

Fri Jan 16 04:12:03 UTC 2009

Hmmm, my earlier reply to Holly may have not been distributed. It is
possible to receive messages on two PCs  with Outlook Express and Outlook --
and, almost certainly with Windows Mail. I have done it when changing
computers and with my desktop and my laptop, and Gloria does it all the time
at home and at her office. Here, again, is how to do it in Outlook Express:

In Outlook Express, go to Tools > Accounts. Select the mail account you
wish to deal with (you may have just one) and click the button on the right
labeled Properties, and select the Advanced Tab. Select "Leave a copy of
message on server." You can then tell OE how many days to leave the messages
on the server or to delete the message when you delete it from your local
"Deleted Items" folder.

Please note that you need to do this on both computers, otherwise one of
them will delete the messages before they can be downloaded by the other.

I am not very familiar with Windows Mail, but I believe it works similarly .
For Christmas, Gloria gave me a new PC with Vista, which I was happy to try
out, but found it would not run Zoomtext or most of my peripherals, so I am
going back to XP Pro. I hope Windows 7 is more friendly.

The reason you tell the program to remove the program after a certain number
of days is so that the server does not fill up, though, if you are using an
e-mail service such as Gmail, you will have an almost unlimited online
Inbox. You need to allow enough days for both computers to be able to grab
all of your messages.

Dan

"If you want to go quickly, go alone.
 If you want to go far, go together."
                        - African Proverb

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Anspach" <danspach at tampabay.rr.com>
To: "'NFB of Florida Listserv'" <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 10:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfbf-l] Outlook compatibility patch

> Hello Holly,
> Normally, I leave these questions  to the resident computer expert on the
> list, Jim Ellsworth <smile>. But since he does not have access to Outlook
> Express, I thought I would take a look to see if leaving e-mail on the
> server is an option within this application.
>
> I have access to Outlook Express on  my Windows XP Home PC. I looked in
> the
> Accounts dialog and there is no way to tell Outlook Express to leave the
> messages on the server rather than downloading them to your PC, as Jim has
> discussed below. So, there is simply no way you can use Outlook Express on
> multiple systems and leave the messages out on the server so that they can
> be accessed by each PC running Outlook Express. As for Windows Mail, I
> have
> never used this either and do not know if you can do this via Windows
> Mail.
> But none the less, if you only have this application on the new system
> with
> Outlook Express on the others, then there is simply not going to be a way
> to
> maintain e-mail messages on all systems. If there is an option within
> Windows Mail to leave e-mail messages on the server, then you may be able
> to
> download and install windows Mail on the older system(s). I don't know if
> you can actually do this, so, your Dad would need to check on the
> Microsoft
> web site to be sure.
>
> However, if you can use Microsoft outlook on each PC, then there is an
> option that you can check when setting up your e-mail account that tells
> Outlook to leave copies of messages on the mail server. This would mean
> that
> each PC would have to be running Outlook with identical e-mail settings,
> including the setting to leave mail on the server. At one time, you could
> purchase Outlook as a stand-alone application, but I don't know if this is
> still an option after the release of Office 2007.
>
> The only other option is to use the web mail client for your specific
> e-mail
> provider or ISP. The only drawback to this option is that you will not be
> able to download e-mail directly to your PC and will have to leave it on
> the
> server for an extended period of time. As Jim has cautioned below, this
> would mean you would run the risk of losing mail any time your e-mail
> provider purges the server of old messages.
>
> In the end, his best bet is to decide which system he likes best and use
> that as his source for reading and composing e-mail. He would not run the
> risk of losing old messages due to their being purged from the e-mail
> server
> and there would not be the problem of trying to keep each system
> synchronized with the others. I know this is not the answer he was hoping
> for, but I'm afraid it's the only answer I have.
>
>
> Good luck,
>
> Dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbf-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbf-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf
> Of Jim Ellsworth
> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 10:06 PM
> To: 'NFB of Florida Listserv'
> Subject: Re: [Nfbf-l] Outlook compatibility patch
>
> Hi Holly,
>
> If he wants to get the same messages on more than one computer there is a
> slight problem which I will explain but there might also be a solution.
>
> Normally when you download your mail to your computer it automatically
> gets
> deleted off of the service provider's server.  This happens so that all
> that
> mail doesn't just sit up there and accumulate eventually overloading the
> server's capacity.  So, this means once the messages have been downloaded
> they are no longer there so can't be downloaded on a different computer
> again.  Most people don't want the same messages on more than one machine
> but if he does want to do that there might be a way to make it happen.
>
> I don't have Outlook Express and I don't use Windows Mail but if you look
> through the menus, probably someplace like tools, options etc, you may
> find
> an option to leave messages on the server after they are downloaded.  If
> you
> do find this option I would only do it on one computer and make sure that
> you use that machine to download the mail first.  That way when he goes to
> the other computer he should be able to get his mail again if he wants.  I
> must caution you though that if the mail is left there on the server to
> accumulate eventually you will get some kind of notification from your
> service provider telling you that you have reached your quota.  I'm not
> sure
> the option mentioned above even exists in either Outlook Express or
> Windows
> Mail but it's worth looking.
>
> Good luck,
> Jim Ellsworth
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbf-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbf-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf
> Of Holly Idler
> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 11:09 AM
> To: NFB of Florida Listserv
> Subject: Re: [Nfbf-l] Outlook compatibility patch
>
> Does anyone know how to get messages on Outlook Express and Window Mail
> (Vista) on two different computers at the same time? My father has a new
> computer and it has Vista on it. Vista uses Windows Mail instead of
> Outlook
> Express. He has a laptop and two desk top computers within his house for
> different uses. He would like to be able to check, read and store his
> messages on all the computers not just the one with Vista. Any help would
> be
> great.
> Holly
>
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Jim Ellsworth
> <jellsworth1 at tampabay.rr.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> I do know of a patch or plug in for allowing people to be able to open
>> Office 2007 documents in earlier versions of Office programs such as
>> Excel or Word.  I am not sure if it also covers Outlook though so I'll
>> have to investigate that.  Can you describe for me what kind of
>> problem you are having?  For example, can you read the message but
>> parts of it seem to be missing, or is it not readable at all.  I used
>> to use Outlook 2003 and I was able to read messages from Outlook 2007
>> fine.  I am now using Outlook 2007 so hopefully you will be able to
>> read this message.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Jim Ellsworth
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nfbf-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbf-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of John
>> Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 5:16 PM
>> To: 'NFB of Florida Listserv'
>> Subject: [Nfbf-l] Outlook compatibility patch
>>
>> Hello All,
>> I am using Outlook 2002 and have been experiencing difficulties in
>> getting emails from Outlook 2007 users and was told that there is a
>> compatibility patch, does anyone know where to find this patch? This
>> is probably a Jim Ellsworth question.
>> Take care,
>> John
>>
>>
>> John A. Ramsey Jr., Esq.
>>
>> Gainesville, FL 32609
>>
>> Phone: (352) 505-6642
>>
>>
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