"lucy" <losem***@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> I have two questions. I need your help!
>
> Q1:
>
> Both my roommate and I use our computer to check emails.
>
> Can Outlook 2003 be configured to support multiple users -- she and I both
> have each own separate mailbox in Outlook 2003 and no privacy will be
> compromised and we use "username" and "password" to get into each person's
> mailbox in Outlook 2003?
>
> Because we want to be able to have Outlook open all the time and download
> all emails automatically from our multiple email accounts: such as company
> email account, yahoo, hotmail, etc. We don't want to check multiple
> web-based email: that's troublesome. We like the feature that Outlook can
> be open all the time and download all emails automatically into local
> mailbox.
>
> How to configure the Outlook 2003 to support multiple users?
>
> -----------------------------------------------
>
> Q2:
>
> Again for the feature of automation, and for the SINGLE user case: I want
> to open the Outlook all the time and want it to download my emails from
> multiple servers/accounts into local mailbox. But I want to have a
> username and password so that after a few minutes that I don't browse my
> email, the Outlook2003 will lock down my account and show a irrelavent
> screensaver. I don't want the whole PC to show a lock-down screensaver
> because I want my roommate to be able to use the computer. I just want the
> Outlook 2003 still open, and still download my emails... but it can set a
> lock/screensaver to my emails so nobody can access my emails even though
> they can use my computer....
>
> Note that I don't want to close the Outlook 2003. In fact, the Outlook
> 2003 has a security feature to set up a password: everytime I start
> Outlook 2003, I have to enter my password to continue to access my mailbox
> folder... But once I enter the password, it remains open all time; there
> is no screensaver to make it not accessible anymore. The only way to
> regain that security is to close the Outlook 2003. And then when I want to
> read my emails, I have to launch the Outlook 2003 again to be asked the
> password. But this is troublesome and time-consuming: I want the program
> to download all my emails automatically so when I want to read emails, I
> don't need to launch the program.
>
> Please help me!
>
> thanks a lot!
>