Re: OT: Synchronizing Email between PCs

On Thu, 10 May 2007 00:37:04 GMT, the renowned Joerg
<notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Question to the road warriors among you: How do you synchronize email
between your laptop and the PC at your office after you return from a trip?

Ok, for anything that's received I am using a simple solution: I set up
my server so that it maintains two sets of copies. One gets downloaded
the instant the office PC comes online. The other does the same but only
to the laptop with a different login. The trick was to use forwarding
plus one regular mailbox. So this was fairly easy.

This does not work for sent emails. Those are not stored on the server
so I can't get them back down from there. Tried copying email folders
and SMF files but to no avail. I could make that work by always using
the exact same client but it'll still be clumsy. Another idea would be
to BCC a separate email box on my server but that's kind of clumsy as
well. Plus I might forget.

Any ideas? How do you guys do this?

I have no problem for up to a couple of weeks with my laptop client
set to leave the mail. My laptop retrieves the mail and marks it as
read. Outgoing e-mails generally get bcc'd to myself, but if I missed
any they'd be easy to open up in Eudora and transfer manually to the
out box. When I get back the fixed computer downloads all the stuff
and deletes it. Unless I run over the 50M limit, that works fine.
Before I leave I take a snapshot of all the mailboxes (back to the
beginning of time) and copy that to the laptop.

A lot of people are now using gmail etc., some people for all of their
mail. It allows you to have access to all your data and
correspondent's addresses, even from someone else's computer, or from
an internet cafe, hotel business center or PDA. Of course there is a
loss of privacy, but everything has a cost.


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
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