Mikael Byström on 1/15/04 said >Richard, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > >>The way I keep my mail up on more than one computer is... >> >>Set the delete messages from server date far enough out >>that I collect copies on all my computers by checking >>for new mail before they are deleted. > >I couldn't use this method for several of my accounts because of >PowerMail insists for some reason to keep redownloading the same messages >if I check it again from the same source, resulting in myriads of >duplicate messages. >So I delete messages when I have downloaded them, rendering then >unaccesible for other instances of PowerMail that I might want to use. > >Otherwise, if one lacks my problem, which by the way is not present on >every account, your method is fine. But it would be easy to miss out one >of the instances of the PM DB, if you break your routines once in a while.
The latest issue of MacWord has a method for keeping mails synchronized on more than one computer. I didn't actually read it thoroughly enough to internalize it... but its the February 2004 issue if someone wants to look into it. -- Barbara Needham
