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Receiving email
I have a desktop which receives my email. I recently set up an additional
laptop elsewhere in the house and purchased Outlook to also receive email from the same address on the laptop. I am not receiving email to the new laptop Outlook, except for an occassional one, but they are still coming in to the desktop. Did I do something wrong or can I only receive email from 1 computer in a house? -- Thanks & regards, HM |
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Hi Hillary,
your Outlook version is? Did you "test" the settings for the email account in Outlook? Did you get any error messages? If you shut down the Outlook on the desktop, do you receive emails now on the laptop? Do you want to have all emails also on the laptop AND on the desktop? http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ou...024431033.aspx Check your settings with this Website: http://products.secureserver.net/ema...il_outlook.htm -- Oliver Vukovics Share Outlook without Exchange (Vista Ready): Public ShareFolder Synchronize Outlook between PC and Notebook: Public SyncTool http://www.publicshareware.com "Hillary Mandell" schrieb im Newsbeitrag ... I have a desktop which receives my email. I recently set up an additional laptop elsewhere in the house and purchased Outlook to also receive email from the same address on the laptop. I am not receiving email to the new laptop Outlook, except for an occassional one, but they are still coming in to the desktop. Did I do something wrong or can I only receive email from 1 computer in a house? -- Thanks & regards, HM |
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"Hillary Mandell" wrote in message ... I have a desktop which receives my email. I recently set up an additional laptop elsewhere in the house and purchased Outlook to also receive email from the same address on the laptop. I am not receiving email to the new laptop Outlook, except for an occassional one, but they are still coming in to the desktop. Did I do something wrong or can I only receive email from 1 computer in a house? If you have POP email, then the first computer to download it will remove the mail from the mail server so that there is no mail available for the second machine to download. The solution is to set both machines to leave a copy on the server. (In Advanced Account settings). |
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The desktop is probably receiving the email then deleting it from the server
so the laptop won't see it. I have a similar set where I travel around with a laptop getting mail, but I don't delete it from the server. Every morning I start Outlook on the desktop that then deletes it from the server. "Hillary Mandell" wrote in message ... I have a desktop which receives my email. I recently set up an additional laptop elsewhere in the house and purchased Outlook to also receive email from the same address on the laptop. I am not receiving email to the new laptop Outlook, except for an occassional one, but they are still coming in to the desktop. Did I do something wrong or can I only receive email from 1 computer in a house? |
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On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:25:02 -0700, Hillary Mandell
wrote: I have a desktop which receives my email. I recently set up an additional laptop elsewhere in the house and purchased Outlook to also receive email from the same address on the laptop. I am not receiving email to the new laptop Outlook, except for an occassional one, but they are still coming in to the desktop. Did I do something wrong or can I only receive email from 1 computer in a house? You have two computers set up to receive mail sent to the same address. One of them will get it first; which one depends on the timing of how they check for mail. The other one won't get the mail because it won't be there any more. If you want them both to get it, do the following on both machines (I'm looking at Outlook 2007 to tell you; in other versions, it should be very similar, if not identical): 1. Got to Tools | Account Settings 2. Double-click you account 3. Go to the E-mail tab and click "More Settings" 4. Go to the Advanced tab 5. Check the box "Leave a copy of message on server." However, note that if both computers are set this way, nothing will ever get deleted on the server unless you delete them manually. In a short while you will likely exceed the maximum space on the server you use and you won't get any more messages. So I recommend that you do not do this on more than one of the two computers. What I do is have just my laptop set that way, so when I travel, I can read messages on the laptop, but still have on the desktop them to read more carefully and save if desired after I return home. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup |
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