Sharing one e-mail account

My wife and I need to share the same e-mail account on the same computer as two different users. I'm trying to find an easy way set up Outlook 2000 on XP so both of us (Logging on as different users) can receive, store, and send the same messages without her having to log on to my account just to see the new messages I received and sent when I was logged on. Is there a MS KB on how to do this? Anyone please?

PS, If you've done this, please include instructions tailored for a dummy. Thanks

XP-SP1 Home
Outlook 2000

 

Look under tools, options, look for "leave a copy of message on server ". I dont think this will work for sent messages though.

 

As I understand it, what you want to do is to keep Outlook's pst file sychronized, preferably automatically, between two accounts. Proceeding on the assumption (which might be completely wrong, of course ) that it would be essentially the same as keeping Outlook synched on two separate computers, I did a few Google searches.

Unfortunately, all the 3rd party software I've found that claim to synch Outlook only work with the Contacts, Calendar, Notes, etc....not the email folders.

So that leaves the only way I know to keep the two pst files synched: Set up all Outlook folders as "Net Folders" (Outlook>File>Share). Every time a change is made to a net folder, that change is automatically sent to whoever you told it to when you set it up. Net folders are only supported in Outlook 2000. Microsoft, in its infinite wisdom, removed that feature in Outlook 2002.