In Microsoft Mail, user could only login to their mail from a single PC at a time....... what was the reason behind that??? can anybody justify? MCP

Microsoft Mail was a shared-file mail system; the "postoffice" was a database of files. Clients used mapped network drives and file sharing to write mail to the postoffice. Clients were in effect Message Transfer Agents (MTAs) for their own postoffices. Because of the file lock and the way they were accessed a user could only login to their mail from a single PC at a time. Microsoft Mail http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_MailMCTS: Messaging | MCSE: S+M

On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:29:40 +0000, TechEx wrote: > > >In Microsoft Mail, user could only login to their mail from a single PC at a time....... > >what was the reason behind that??? > >can anybody justify? For the same reason you can't use a PST file today by more than one user on one machine. As for justification, I can't think of a reason why anyone would use MS Mail today. --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP

Thanks Jon Microsoft Mail was a shared-file mail system; the "postoffice" was a database of files. Clients used mapped network drives and file sharing to write mail to the postoffice. Clients were in effect Message Transfer Agents (MTAs) for their own postoffices. Because of the file lock and the way they were accessed a user could only login to their mail from a single PC at a time. Microsoft Mail http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Mail MCTS: Messaging | MCSE: S+M MCP