On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Derek Martin wrote:
> Bruce McCulley wrote:
>
> > BTW, netscape isn't much help, literally. Their help model assumes net
> > connectivity, which isn't valid when the seatback phone dataport costs
> > $2.99/minute plus $2.99 to connect! That makes me suspect that their
> > architecture isn't really geared to the disconnected user, so they may
> > not be the best solution for my requirements.
>
> What is Outlook capable of doing that aleviates the necessity for an
> internet connection? Or, IOW, how can you reference messages that you
> don't physically have access to?
You can setup folders in Outlook that will sync with the Exchange server
everytime you connect. This way what you have on your laptop is a mirror
image of what's on the server. They have a name for it but I can't
remember it at the moment.....
> You can use IMAP to read messages on an IMAP server (the messages are
> kept on the server), but you still need to be able to access the server
> to read the messages.
>
> I guess I don't really understand what it is that you're trying to
> achieve...
Presumably you could suck the mail onto all your systems in various places
and keep multiple copies of everything that way. One central server that
your mail is sent to and you just copy it from there. What if you setup
somethine like fetchmail to pull down the mail, pull everything down
regardless if it's new or not and not delete messages on the server?
May take a little time to setup, but trust me, it's cheaper ($$ and time)
then using exchange!
--rdp
Rich Payne
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