Win98 & Win95 sharing email address book

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Jay - 23 Mar 2005 01:40 GMT

I have two PCs: "A" has Win98 and "B" has Win95. They're already set up
for local file/print sharing. A has an Internet connection, and B accesses
the Internet via A.

I'm looking for free POP email client software that will allow A and B to
share a common address book. These files will be on A, but things should
work when the email client is running on B (using the file sharing). I'll
never have the email client running on A and B simultaneously; it'll be
running on either one or the other (or neither).

It'd be nice to share the inbox and email folders too.

Basically, the person using the email client should see the same data from
either A or B.

There's already a big address book, so the software should be able to
import it from (say) a CSV file.

Does anybody have experience with a setup like this? Thanks!

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Brian A. - 26 Mar 2005 22:53 GMT

If you want to share everything and have no immediate plans to use both machines
at the same time for email or the net, why not set up the same account on both?
Using the address book for 2 accounts can be done by importing it into your
email app/s.
If you want to receive/see the same mail, set up a rule that forwards them to
the second machine.

Since this is not a network issue, all queries should be asked in a more
appropriate email ng/forum.

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>I have two PCs: "A" has Win98 and "B" has Win95. They're already set up
> for local file/print sharing. A has an Internet connection, and B accesses
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> Does anybody have experience with a setup like this? Thanks!

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CJT - 26 Mar 2005 23:22 GMT

> I have two PCs: "A" has Win98 and "B" has Win95. They're already set up
> for local file/print sharing. A has an Internet connection, and B accesses
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> never have the email client running on A and B simultaneously; it'll be
> running on either one or the other (or neither).

That's key. It should allow pretty much ANY e-mail client to do what
you want -- just store the address book on only one of the machines and
share it across (although both machines will have to be running for the
one to work that isn't storing the file locally).

However, I'm not sure I'd trust that your intentions to never run both
at once will necessarily be effective -- accidents happen.

I think Netscape's e-mail client can do the necessary locking -- but
you need to set it up as a "network" version. In fact, I suspect _most_
modern e-mail clients can do it with appropriate setup.

> It'd be nice to share the inbox and email folders too.
>
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>
> Does anybody have experience with a setup like this? Thanks!

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Jay - 29 Mar 2005 20:47 GMT

>> ... I'll never have the email client running on A and B
>> simultaneously; it'll be running on either one or the other (or
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> you want -- just store the address book on only one of the machines
> and share it across ...

Thanks. I figured it kinda oughta work ok, but I was hoping to hear from
somebody who has this setup.

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