Re: OT: Synchronizing Email between PCs

Jim Thompson wrote:

On Thu, 10 May 2007 00:37:04 GMT, 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?


When I traveled regularly I didn't do E-mail on my PC, I did it on a
Motorola "PageWriter" Pager. My son wrote a handler so that incoming
E-mail to MY HOME PC was forwarded to the pager with all pertinent
sender info. When I replied it went BACK THROUGH my home PC before
being sent, so copies were always on the HOME PC. The sender saw
headers which looked like I replied from my HOME PC.


However, that requires the home PC to remaining running. I like to turn things off before I leave ;-)


I now have an LG "V" phone (with E-mail capability), so I need a new
handler written. Aren't kids wonderful ?:-)


They sure can be.


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?


If you were using Eudora the filtering and re-direction would be
trivial ;-)


I'll check out how Thunderbird fares. If it doesn't work for me maybe I should try out Eudora.

--
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com
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