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| 1081.1 | Delivery to on Your Portable Profile ! | FLASK2::SYSTEM | Nigel Bridport @REO | Tue May 27 1997 15:45 | 12 |
| Hi,
On your profile on the protable, where do yove delivery set too ?
Tools/Services, Delivery Tab, Delivery drop down box.
It sounds to me that on your portable, you have delivery to a local
.PST file. If you want to keep all of your Inbox mail on the server,
then you need to change this to point to you mailbox.
Nigel
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| 1081.2 | Thanks | 42080::BUZYAL::sharkeya | Who am I now ? | Tue May 27 1997 22:04 | 5 |
| Ahh - obvious when someone else tells you.
Many thanks
Alan
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| 1081.3 | Always change it on your laptop. IMHO. | JULIET::HARRIS_MA | Networks Sales Exec | Wed May 28 1997 01:51 | 14 |
| I always recommend changing this value on Laptops inside Digital. The
default for a laptop installation is Delivery to Local Folders, while
on a Ethernet attached device it is Delivery on the Server.
Since we all know laptops are far from rock-solid business tools, I
think it makes a great deal of sense to leave all your mail ON THE
SERVER, MAINTAINED by CCS, backed-up, stored, safe, secure, etc. In
addition, you don't get that massive transfer everytime you connect
remotely whilst the messages are moved, and you don't use-up all your
free disk space on your laptop. (As if we have any free space!)
Mark
Mark
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| 1081.4 | | BUSY::SLAB | Audiophiles do it 'til it hertz! | Wed May 28 1997 03:12 | 7 |
|
Even better is to use a common area* for .PST and .PAB files so that
your mail is backed up AND easily recoverable in the case of some
sort of catastrophe.
* = NT file server that all of your machines can access.
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| 1081.5 | thousands of system managers required... | TROOA::MSCHNEIDER | schneiderma@mail.dec.com | Wed May 28 1997 05:13 | 24 |
| I used to think keeping my mail on the server was the reliable place to
keep mail (from my ALL-IN-1 experience) until we experienced a 2 day
outage on our Exchange server!
;^)
The default notebook installation which drags all your mail onto a
local disk is simply asking for disaster. Most novice notebook users
don't even realize what is happening. Wait till something on their
notebook screws up and it gets reimaged and lo and behold they have no
mail in Exchange! How we could make that the default is AMAZING! The
strategy seems to be to offload storage and responsibilities to the
end-user. Interesting way to run a business.
Since I trust neither my server, nor my notebook and I'm not about to
find a 3rd place to put my mail (the common area as suggested in a
previous note), I synchronize key folders so that I have the best of
both worlds. Uses twice the space, but until someone can make me
believe that the new messaging system is as robust as what I moved from
this is the best solution.
What amazes me is how much of a systems manager I've had to become
trying to deal with this fragile new mail system.
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| 1081.6 | Happy Happy Happy | FLASK2::SYSTEM | Nigel Bridport @REO | Wed May 28 1997 13:22 | 17 |
| Hmmm.
I have delivery to a local .PST due to the storage limits of the
Exchange server. The .PST file is kept on a CCS backed-up machine and
I dragged a copy of it into my Briefcase. The .PST IS then points to
the Briefcase copy of the .PST. I do the same for my .PAB and, as I
use Outlook, my archive .PST. I then have a number of other .PST to
store read type messages.
If I lost my laptop, then no problem, I have an uptodate synch'd copy
still of all necessary files.
I have been using this now for about 5 months with no problems
what-so-ever.
Nigel_a_happy_Exchange_user.
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