Re: OT: Synchronizing Email between PCs

Robert Latest wrote:

Joerg wrote:


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.


The POP (Post Office Protocol) server knows nothing about outgoing mail. It is solely for getting received mail onto your local machine. Outgoing mail is always handled with SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol), and the connection may go to a completely different machine than the one that handles POP for you.

With IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) it is almost the same; however, unlike POP, which is strictly a one-way affair, IMAP allows stuff to be transferred from your local machine to the IMAP host. Therefore you can keep sent mail and drafts in your IMAP repository together with all your received mail.

In other words, when you send mail through an account set up for IMAP, two things happen simultaneously: Your mail gets sent to the recipient via SMPT (as always), and at the same time it gets sent via IMAP to your personal email repository.


Yep, that sounds like a solution. A repository where I can download them from later (and then wipe the repository until the next trip).

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Regards, Joerg

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