OE's message stores isn't designed for sharing but there are work arounds
and for that requires a little extra work should you make ANY changes.

You have to clone it is basically what happens.

Each computer HAS to be set up for OE identically.

Start off by making a backup of the message stores on the second computer,
we'll call Computer B.

Tools | Options |Maintenance tab | Store Folders button to find the location
of the DBX files.

Now, locate the Address Book. OPen Address Book and click on Help | About,
it shoud show the location of the WAB file. Make a backup of it.

Copy that back up to Computer A and import the messages. Create a folder on
Computer A and name it Old Mail.

Copy the Address Book to the same C:\Old Mail folder and import it in via
File | Import | Address Book.

File | Import | Messages | Microsoft Outlook Express 6 | Import mail from an
OE6 store directory. Press Next and then Browse and navigate to the C:\Old
Mail folder where you put the message stores from Computer B. Select it to
highlight it then press OK and finish up the import.

Now you have ALL messages and folders on one computer.

Here is where I would suggest you create a single folder for the message
stores that is NOT in the Documents and Settings folder. Mainly because both
computers may have different user profiles and this becomes a pain to deal
with.

On Computer A, create a new folder on the hard drive and name it C:\Mail

On Computer A, go to Tools | Options | Maintenance tab |Store Folders
button.
Press Change and navigate to the C:\Mail folder.
Now close out the dialog and close OE.
Restart OE and the message stores will be moved to C:\Mail.

Now you're ready.

Close OE on COmputer A and Computer B.

START | Run
type in Regedit and press ENTER

Press the + sign next to HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Click on the Identities subkey
Now, from the File menu, select Export
Name it Identities.reg

Now, scroll down and locate HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software and expand it.
Click the + sign next to Microsoft and expand it.

Locate the following:

Internet Acounts Manager
Export it as IAM.reg

Now, make a central location of the Address Book, just use the C:\Mail
folder would be okay. On Computer A, copy the WAB file for it to that
folder.

Scroll further down in Regedit and find WAB subkey
Edit the registry and change it to show the path as C:\Mail

Export it as WAB.reg


Now you're ready.

Make a folder on Computer B and name it C:\Mail
Copy all the dbx files and WAB files from Computer A to Computer B.

Now, copy the three .reg files to Computer B.

Import each in by right clicking on it and selecting Merge.

Start OE on Computer B and it will look like Computer A.


Now, the problems to avoid.

IF you make any changes (add accounts, make changes in OE), you HAVE to
export the the .reg subkeys and (less WAB.reg if you don't make changes to
it) and import them into which ever computer has not had the changes made.
THIS IS A MUST! If you don't, you may find you have an empty Inbox for some
odd reason and that reason is OE didn't know what to do so it created a new
Identity and new message stores.


Also, if you have multiple Identities setup, just make the change to the
message store location. Actually I'd just ditch them till you get things set
up and running right.







"Question" wrote in message
...

Can you have one identity on two computers and not have to import all the
emails from one computer to another. ?

I just added a computer to my network at work but I need to still look at
my
emails with the new additional computer, is that something I can do with
the
same setup and name.

Jose

Thank you in advance for any of your sugguestions.