Geek Question - email programs

[Kevy Baby]

Long story, but basically I need to set my boss's computer up with two separate email programs. He uses Outlook 2003 as his main email program on Vista. For the second program, I was going to use Windows Mail (the successor to Outlook Express).

Is there any harm in having both programs open? They would be accessing different email accounts, but from the same server (we do not use Exchange Server - just a Go Daddy account).

I know that there are other solutions available but he is a picky PITA and I would like to stay with MS Products (as much as it kills me).

The purpose of this email client would be to get copies of all of our emails (everyone else who works in the company). Yes, he is that paranoid. The volume would be about 20-100 emails per day per person, many with large attachments (2MB-15MB). I can set up the rules to sort each person's email into a separate folder, I just don't know if having two Microsoft email products running at the same time is a problem.

If it is, any other suggestions?

[Moonliner]

I don't see a technical issue with running what you are planning I have used both outlook and outlook express at the same time.

What's the mailbox size limit on Microsoft mail?

If he wants to use two versions of Outlook you could setup a VM system for him.

I assume you set all the passwords for everones email and don't let them change it?

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

I don't see a technical issue with running what you are planning I have used both outlook and outlook express at the same time.

Good to know - thank you.

Originally Posted by Moonliner

What's the mailbox size limit on Microsoft mail?

Good question, I will look into that. The reason I am setting him up with a secondary client is that his Outlook file was getting immensely bloated with copies of all our emails. It got to the point where he couldn't even use the program (when I first got in there to clean things up, it took a couple of minutes to even open a window in Outlook).

Originally Posted by Moonliner

If he wants to use two versions of Outlook you could setup a VM system for him.

I'm not that smart (I don't even know what a VM System is). I think it would be better for him to have a different look so that he doesn't confuse whether he is in his own email or the copy email.

Originally Posted by Moonliner

I assume you set all the passwords for everyone's email and don't let them change it?

No (intentionally). But in reality, only one other person besides me would even know how to change their password.

BTW, how I set this up is that in the Go Daddy admin settings, I created a "copy" account for each person (kevincopy@domain for example). All incoming emails to each of our accounts is cc'ed to our respective "copy" accounts. His email is set up to download the email from each of these copy accounts.

I was going to set it up so that all of us would just leave our emails on the server for a certain period of time and set up his email so that he pulled the same email messages from the server (a much simpler solution). However, a tech that came in told him that somebody could (from their own email client) delete the message (). So that idea got nixed. So much for keeping it simple.

[Moonliner]

Let's hope no one comes in and tells him how to setup a capture routine on your LAN to nab all Gmail/hotmail/Yahoo mail/ and IM's.

I've used a utility called image drifter on my work LAN. It grabs random images traversing then network and displays them on your desktop. It was very interesting......

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

Let's hope no one comes in and tells him how to setup a capture routine on your LAN to nab all Gmail/hotmail/Yahoo mail/ and IM's.

I've used a utility called image drifter on my work LAN. It grabs random images traversing then network and displays them on your desktop. It was very interesting......

At one point a couple of year's ago, he had someone install a keystroke capture program on my computer because he felt (for whatever reason) that I really wasn't working that hard. The report back was that I was doing even MORE work than what was expected of me.

Then, when he told me about the program and instructed me to find somebody to remove it (the person who installed it was no longer with the company), he had the gall to tell me it was "nothing personal."

Yeah, right.

[Pirate Bill]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

The purpose of this email client would be to get copies of all of our emails (everyone else who works in the company). Yes, he is that paranoid.

You don't happen to work for a small ERP software company do you?

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Pirate Bill

You don't happen to work for a small ERP software company do you?

That isn't us, but it might as well be