Email Issue

Question

I recently networked my Dimension 8400 and Vostro 1510 laptop via a Linksys WRT160N wireless router. The router is connected to a cable modem and the 8400 is cabled to the modem. The Vostro is wireless. The network seems to work fine except for one problem. I do not receive the identical emails on both computers. If I snd a test email on one it only comes back to the computer on which it was sent. How do I get both computers to get identical emails from senders?

Davet50 · Answer

if you running the same email account on both computers it will not. one computer will only get the email. I will depend on which computer scans the server first.

joscos · Answer

Thanks for your response, Dave50, but I actually got it to work after some changes. My daugter told me I should go to my email account settings and check the box that keeps email copies on the server. I also did a repair using the account settings. To test it I turned off my desktop and sent an email test message to myself from my laptop. It showed up on my laptop, as well as a message from a friend in Sweden. I then turned on my desktop, and both messages were there as well.

Incidentally, the desktop has MS SB Office 2003 and the Laptop has Office SB 2007.

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