Hi, Mike.
To answer your question, I don't think there should be any issue at
all so long as you don't have both systems set up to receive and organize
the mail at a specific time schedule. That is, so long as the systems are
receiving mail and organizing it on command rather than, perhaps, every ten
minutes, there should be no issues. It might be interesting to see what
happened of both systems were attempting to reorganize messages at the same
time. This isn't because IMAP would have trouble with this, IMAP
specifically allows simultaneous access, but some implementations aren't
really robust enough to take significant work by more than one client on
more than one message. Basically, if you have either computer to work on a
schedule, and if the other computer starts its own work at the same time,
you are reliant on the excellence of the server to handle things properly.
However, if the systems are working one by one, there should be no problem.
Even if there was an issue, things would get a bit confused and the issues
could be corrected, it wouldn't be any sort of serious difficulty.
Further, keep in mind that some ISPs allow you to do server-side
classification of some sort. Personally, I don't like this, I prefer to have
my filters running myself and working on both my POP and IMAP servers from
the same application, but you may think differently.
Aman
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Busboom
Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 10:03 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Duelling IMAPs?
Hello everyone,
At present, I regularly use two different computers for checking my mail.
One of these is my PC running Windows 7, using Thunderbird and the other is
my Mac where I Have Snow Leopard installed. I use the mail client that is a
part of SL.
Right now, whenever I check mail on the PC, messages are automatically
placed in folders that I have set up. Whenever I then go to the Mac, these
messages are also in their respective folders. The problem arises, however,
when any new messages arrive in my inbox while using the Mac. They are not
placed in their designated folders. The reason for this is simple: I
haven't set up any filters on the Mac side of the equation. I was recently
told that it would be best to only have one computer do all the filtering.
However, I am using my Mac more and more, and I'd like to be able to have
the mail program on the Mac automatically place messages in the right
folders. So my question is
this: If I am really careful about setting up filters on the Mac, making
sure that both systems use precisely the same filtering criteria, should
there be any problems having the Mac do the message filtering when I use it
and having the PC do the message filtering whenever I use it?
I was told that tidbits.com would soon be releasing a Take Control
publication for the Mac mail program. I am looking forward to purchasing it
and hoping that it will address issues such as this one.
My best to all,
Mike
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