outlook express?

[rubyred]

I have two computers hooked up together for the cancer research. Recently, on the 23 of march, my e-mail address went to the other computer. My old computer had outlook express and an old e-mail address, well now both computers have the same address and I can ony access the mail from the old computer. My problem is that I want my e-mail to stay on the new computer. If I delete the account on the old computer will the whole account disapear? I hate to take the risk, but want things back the way they were. Any feedback will be appreciated.

[Starfury_2260]

Not quite sure what your asking. Are you wanting to remove the old email address account from outlook express but keep it's emails?

[rubyred]

no I don't want to keep the messages, I want to delete the account with identical address, but don't want to lose the account totally since it is on two computers. I want to keep the account on my main computer but delete it on the other. I just don't want to lose the account totally. I figured this would sound confusing. the only account that was active was the one on my main computer until low and behold the account became active on both. I was checking my mail on the main one and wasn't getting mail. Yesterday, I accidental ended up on the old one and my account was active and that was where my mail was going. I don't want to shut off the old one, hubby wants it for the cancer research. if this dosent explain it well I will just take a risk and delete the address and hope for the best.

[John Prophet]

if you have the account on 2 different computers..it will work on both computers...whichever one you "check" the mail with will be the one that "has" the mail on it.

If you delete the account from the old computer..it wont affect the new computer at all....you will still have the account on the new computer.

The account is registered etc with the ISP...your computer just accesses the mail that is on the ISP's computer...you could have one computer or 5 computers accessing the account.....so if you delete the account off of one computer it wont affect the account on another computer.

Lots of people set the mail settings to "leave a copy of messages on the server"....so that they can check the mail at the office..and then come home and check the mail also on their home computer and that way they have the messages on BOTH computers....maybe you could do that instead of deleting the account from the old computer.

to do that, in outlook express, you go to "tools/accounts....clcik on the "mail" tab...click on the account to highlight it...properties...advanced tab...then at the bottom it should say "delivery" and there will be a check box for "leave a copy of message on server"

if you check that on BOTH computers..then you will be able to get the mail on both.


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otherwise just delete the account off of the old computer..it wont affect the other computer.

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to save old accounts/folder/emails etc...go to c:\windows\application data\identities

you can either save the whole identities folder....or savethe individual folder within it which will correspond to the individual accounts......inside the fodlers you will find all sorts of ".dbx" files...those files are you actual email folders...like "sent items" etc etc....I suppose you could just save those but I think its easier to save the whole identities folder.

JP

[rubyred]

thanks so much sometimes these things seem to have a mind of their own.

[Bovon]

Be sure to delete those messages that are left on the servers hard drives daily..if not, and you get a lot of mail.. you will soon reach your storage limit and the email server will bounce the new incoming mails.