I have a SBS for small business and an exchange server. I have local client computers connected to the exchange server to download email. I have recently setup a VPN to allow mobile users to connect to our server so they can access local files/mailboxes. Once setting up the remote PC's exchange account, it proceeded to download emails. But at the same time i noticed that my local computers' emails were deleting themselves 1 by 1 as they were downloaded to the remote computer. Is there a way to leave messages on the server so that both computers can download mail when requested and without removing the email on the opposite machine? Thanks Simon
Yes, you need to set the remote computer to use the Exchange Mailbox (and not a local PST file) as its default delivery location. You didn't say what version of Outlook you're using on the remote machine but Tools | Accounts (or similar) and modify the properties to set the default delivery location. Once you've done that you'll have to move the items BACK to the mailbox from the PST file on that remote machine. It's a little bit of a pain to do, but at least all new mail will come into the mailbox so you will only have to move over the old mail. -- -Ben- Ben M. Schorr, MVP Roland Schorr & Tower http://www.rolandschorr.com http://www.officeforlawyers.com "siik" wrote in message news:779f9487-af1d-4b6c-a2c0-c8c64c85943e@w4g2000prd.googlegroups.com: > I have a SBS for small business and an exchange server. I have local > client computers connected to the exchange server to download email. I > have recently setup a VPN to allow mobile users to connect to our > server so they can access local files/mailboxes. Once setting up the > remote PC's exchange account, it proceeded to download emails. But at > the same time i noticed that my local computers' emails were deleting > themselves 1 by 1 as they were downloaded to the remote computer. Is > there a way to leave messages on the server so that both computers can > download mail when requested and without removing the email on the > opposite machine? > > Thanks > Simon
