Re: OT: Synchronizing Email between PCs

On Thu, 10 May 2007 13:50:17 GMT, the renowned Joerg
<notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

coyote wrote:

Joerg wrote:

coyote wrote:

Joerg 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?


This may not work for you, but most of my colleagues who travel a lot
use webmail of some variety. Accessible from any computer, even if
not theirs, and all neatly kept in the same place. Some of them only
use webmail when on the road and some use it always.


Yes, I've got that as well. But the server has a smallish attachment
size limit when doing webmail. 2MB or so. When sending a large CAD
file such as a set of Gerbers it blows webmail out of the water. Those
can easily exceed 5MB which is no problem over a POP/IMAP connection.


Depends on the service you use. AOL allows 15 megs, and is free. Gmail
is 10 megs, also free. Etc. If you are locked into your company's
webmail, then that might not work for you at all.

One thing I forgot to mention that does work, at least in Thunderbird:
You can do a bulk forward. Highlight all sent emails from the recent
trip and forward to yourself. But it's more like a bandaid because
that lumps them all together in one long email.


And what a pain in the ass that is...One thing you could try, if it is a
POP server, is set it to leave the mail or a copy of the mail on the
server, so that when you get home you can just download it all to your
primary machine.


It can do that but not for sent emails. They just zip through.

More specifically, they zip past. I use completely different servers
for sending and receiving e-mail. Probably (physically) they are 500
miles apart.



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