Re: OT: Synchronizing Email between PCs

Rene Tschaggelar wrote:

Joerg wrote:

Rene Tschaggelar 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?

Joerg,
I leave the mails on the server with my notebook.
In regular intervals I pull them down to a fixed
machine. Yes, I have them on both machines finally.
I also use thunderbird as mail client on both machines.


How do you leave the sent messages up there? Webmail? Or some trick with IMAP as Robert had suggested?


No, the server settings allows to tick : leave
messages on server. I have it on one mache but
not on the other.


I'll have to check my server if it allows this, somehow. It does for incoming mail but haven't seen a setting for outgoing. When I tried it only stored incoming.

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Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com
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