Hi

I have 3 PC's which are networked together. The problem was that each PC used Outlook Express independantly to send and recieve emails. After searching the net i found a number of articles that explained how to share the store folder so that they use the same .dbx files, allowing each PC to access every email.

This appears to work - however not for long as at random new .dbx files appear ending in (1) eg. inbox (1).dbx

From what I can tell this means that the original inbox.dbx file is corrupt and so a new inbox is created.

Is there any way Outlook Express can be networked reliably.

Many thanks

Hi jcstanley,

I'm not too sure of the benefit of using this method? The most likely cause could be that when one person opens OE, it locks the files...so the 2nd person to open it has to create a new one.
Or perhaps the file type supports 2 connections, but the 3rd is where it can't handle it.

This is just specilation, as i've never heard of/needed to do this type of thing before.