We have an office that shares an account for four people.  This is essentially a job queue, and nobody deletes messages.  If you want a message with independent instances, you should use a forwarding rule to distribute to their four separate mailboxes in order to prevent the scenario you describe.
ben

On 05/13/2011 2:36, Kevin Gagel wrote:

On Friday 13/05/2011 at 11:08 am, Steve wrote:

Thanks for the advice.  Yes I’ve already recommended they move to IMAP. 

 

I would have to convert this account to IMAP?  I thought you could just remove the account in Outlook and then use IMAP to connect back to the account. 

 

I think the issue was that if one of the 3 people checking it delete a message wouldn’t it delete the message for all of them?

 

Hold on.
Are you saying one account is servicing three users? Then hell ya, user1 reads message and deletes it then user2 won't ever see it. The same would apply to IMAP.

Netwin should chime in here... I do think that you can setup an account and share it to other accounts. I'm sure of the procedure or if they would/could be setup as "slave" accounts but I do know that you can share it.

Kevin W. Gagel
Network Administrator
College of New Caledonia
(250)562-2131 local 5448

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