Re: OT: Synchronizing Email between PCs

Spehro Pefhany wrote:

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.


With received email I do it in a similar fashion. Guess I'll have to get used to the BCC thing then. Was hoping I didn't have to...

It would be nice if programs like Thunderbird could be set to "always BCC address so-and-so" on the laptop. Then it would be really easy to sort them out on the office PC. You'd just sort by sender which will be your own email address for these messages, then drag them to the "sent" folder.


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.


Can't really do that with biz stuff.

--
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com
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