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    Yes - create a Personal Folder Service and locate the .PST file on your
    PC.

    Thanks - I will give it a try tomorrow.  When I do this is all of my
    mail automagically transferred to my local disk?

    Not automagically, but it's a a simpe "drag & drop" operation to move
    it.  If you want your new mail to automatically be moved from the server
    to your personal folder when you connect to the server, you can set
    this up in Tools->Services->Exchange Server properties->Delivery.  If
    you use multiple PCs to read your mail, you probably only want to
    deliver new mail to a personal folder on one of them, else you will end
    up spreading your new mail across several PCs - not good!
    

RE: .0

I have been doing this for about 5 months now, and it works well.

As the last few replies stated, setup your private folders, set the delivery
to one of the private folders, and then use Tools->Remote Mail to fetch your
mail from the server.  

One thing I did was to create an EXCHANGE directory under the \My Documents
directory, instead of leaving it at the top level or under \Program Files.
Then put the .PST files in that area when you create them.  This way it 
(somewhat) isolates the writeable stuff which needs frequent backups from
the programs which need less frequent backups.

-- Ken Moreau

    Thanks for all the pointers.   I will give it a go tomorrow

	Or you could use the Outlook client and use its Archive feature
	to automatically move messages to a local PST.

								mike

Two additional points:

If you move your mail to your PC, YOU are responsible for backing 
them up.

RE: Access when away. If you have two systems, one at work/home 
and another one that you may use when away, it requires to allow 
remote access to the postoffice PC.

You have to install in the .pst PC the option "File and Print 
Sharing for Microsoft Networks". Right click on 
Network Neighborhood-->Properties->Add->Service->Microsoft->File 
and Print Sharing for Microsoft Networks. Then you have to allow 
access (password protected) to the disk where you have your 
postoffice. And in the travelling PC you have to setup Exchange to 
point to that remote disk with the .pst file.

    re: .7
    *and* you must not be running Exchange on both machines at the same
    time. Only one of them can be accessing the .PST file at any time.
    
    colin

You might want to consider a networked drive.  Create your .PST there where 
it can be available from all of your systems. Simply mount the drive and point

the personal folder to that drive/filename. 

If on a CCS Support Office server, the file will be backed up for you.  In the

event you delete something you shouldn't have - you can recover from the last 
backup.

Regards

 
[Posted by WWW Notes gateway]

    Just as a general point of reference --
    
    Although I don't use Exchange, I'm using Eudora Pro with a POP
    server and have the Eudora mailboxes set up on a network drive at
    work (via Pathworks). Works fine as far as commonality of access and
    backup go. One thing that doesn't work quite so well is performance
    from home, but there's really no getting around that (that I can
    figure) in this environment: when running Eudora from home, every
    piece of mail I read moves across the wire twice: once from the POP
    server to my machine's memory, and once from there up to the network
    drive. If I 'delete' it, it moves twice again: from the network
    drive to my machine's memory to the network drive (since "delete" is
    simply "move to a different (trash) folder". 
    
    The same general characteristics will hold for Exchange (or any
    other mail client) and networked drives.