Ron Johnson wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/11/08 06:48, Mihira Fernando wrote:Dawn Light wrote:An inefficient E-mail setup in a small office needs to be replaced with a better solution. I ask for your wise advice.[snip]Any suggestions and comments about anything, including the phrasing of this message, are welcome and your help will be accepted with gratitude.If ISP offers IMAP, configure mail clients all work stations to use IMAP to access the email box at the ISP.An idea, but no business in it's right mind wants to leave email out of it's control.If no IMAP is offered, next easiest to do is to enable the "keep mail on server" option in the POP3 settings and configure all work stations to use POP3. In ALL works stations enable the "Keep mail on server" option.Oh puh-leeze. There's a *reason* POP is the *Post Office* Protocol. Do people with snail mail post office boxes leave their mail in their P.O. box? No. They grab it and bring it home/to the office.Otherwise a local mail server is the solution but it is a bit more complex than the above two methods.
Now where's your wise cracks for this option hmm ?
Mihira.
The OP asked for suggestions. I offer 2 which are extremely easy to setup options that can and is being used with minimum hassle. How viable it is for his office, is up to the OP to decide.
Using a local mail store is indeed the best solution but it is more complex. once again its up to the OP to decide which method to use. He may have adequate mailbox space at his ISP and he may not have a problem with his mail sitting at the mailbox at his ISP either.
We dont know either case so why speculate on it ?After all he asked for options, and my first 2 options are the easiest to set up. It doesn't reek with geekness but maybe the OP doesn't need a solution that has uber geek written all over it ?
My suggestions are valid. Even you have to agree on that (even though they may not be sleek solutions).
Let the OP judge for himself which method he wants to use. Mihira. -- "Not many people know when love really starts... More than a friend, but not quite lovers. A delicate relationship like this changes gradually once it is noticed, and keeps on blossoming, Just like the changing seasons." -- Kanzaki Kyoichi