Re: Best way to use The Bat on two home computers?
Sacks, Avram @ 2008-4-02 10:52:27 AM Best way to use The Bat on two home computers? mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I keep two computers synchronized daily, morning and night, by using a little program (25 bucks I think) called Directory Toolkit. This program sounds great, particularly since I would like to do with another application (Adobe Photoshop Elements and Premier Elements) what I would like to do with the Bat. How long have you been using it, and do you encounter any firewall issues with it? I've not be following this thread that closely, but you may want to take a look at Unison: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ -- Christopher Using The Bat! v4.0.18 on Windows Vista 6.0 Build 6000. Accessing POP3 and IMAP4 mailboxs. perl is the lossy compression for programming languages -ralph pgpBEvBr55rVG.pgp Description: PGP signature Current version is 4.0.18 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Best way to use The Bat on two home computers?
Hello Dwight, Sunday, March 30, 2008, 3:02:13 AM, you wrote: DC I've been very satisfied with fastmail, and there are others out there DC too, some even free. I'm using IMAP with Fastmail and AIM Mail. But that's only a fraction of my email. Most goes trough my domain names. DC your message caused me to look at my provider's email services. They DC never mention IMAP in their entire documentation. From their POV it's probably a wise decision. :-) -- Best Wishes, Mark using The Bat! 4.0.20 Current version is 4.0.18 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Best way to use The Bat on two home computers?
Hello Achdut18, Sunday, March 30, 2008, 7:25:17 AM, you wrote: A After reading all of the posts on this subject, It seems to me that I A could do the following: download mail to either the laptop or the A desktop, but then use the synchronization feature of The Bat to make A sure that both machines have the same mail on their hard drives. A Would this also work to automatically copy to the laptop all of the A mail on the desktop, the first time I invoke synchronization on the A laptop? Synchronisation is a three step process and so you don't want to be doing this on a daily basis. It would be nice if it were possible to do this automatically over a network. The solution I have used for a long time was to use TheBat Voyager on a memory stick. I could carry it with me between work and home. I've stopped using Voyager for now until version 4 is released. Then I will probably continue with Voyager after I get the tiniest USB device I can find. Since I have a small laptop, I don't want something big sticking out the side of it. But Voyager is by far the best way to keep email with you no matter what machine you're on. -- Dougmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** TheBat! 4.0.20 on Windows XP Current version is 4.0.18 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Best way to use The Bat on two home computers?
Hello Achdut18, On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:36:37 -0500 GMT (31/03/2008, 04:36 +0700 GMT), Achdut18 wrote: DH Synchronisation is a three step process and so you don't want to be doing this on a DH daily basis. A Is it really that involved? This is how I have been synchronising for years: Each outgoing mail is BCC'ed to myself. This way, not only the incoming but also the outgoing mails are on each computer on which I check them. TB! is on each computer is set to leave messages on the server, albeit it is possible to set one computer to a number of days after which you are sure that each PC has downloaded the mails. If you use each computer every day (including weekends), then 2 days is enough. BBC'ing to yourself was mentioned earlier in this thread, I don't whether you saw this. IMAP or webmail are no option for me due to unreliable and somewhat slow internet connections. I need to have the mails on the computer (or USB stick), and let POP or SMTP do their slow work in the background. -- Cheers, Thomas. 100 000 Muenchner koennen Deutsche werden. * http://thomas.fernandez.hat-gar-keine-homepage.de/ Message reply created with The Bat! 4.0.20 under Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2 Current version is 4.0.18 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Best way to use The Bat on two home computers?
On Saturday, March 29, 2008, 5:07:32 PM, Michael J. Sharp wrote: So please tell us how you got it working. It has been working so long I have no memory of any fine tuning. If you look at the beta archives from back when it was first being worked on there I'm sure you will find some discussions about optimization. I allow 4 connections. I don't synchronize, since that seems to be entirely unnecessary. -- Dwight A. Corrin 316.303.9385 phone ahead to fax dcorrin at fastmail.fm photo galleries at http://dcorrin.smugmug.com Using IMAP with The Bat! 4.0.20 on Windows Vista version 6,0 () Current version is 4.0.18 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Best way to use The Bat on two home computers?
Hello Dwight, Friday, March 28, 2008, 11:58:31 PM, you wrote: DAC Better yet, switch to IMAP and leave POP behind. You'll be glad you DAC did. Except of course when your provider has decided to stop offering IMAP :-) -- Best Wishes, Mark using The Bat! 4.0.18.7 Current version is 4.0.18 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Best way to use The Bat on two home computers?
On Saturday, March 29, 2008, 6:19:08 PM, Mark Partous wrote: Except of course when your provider has decided to stop offering IMAP :-) I've been very satisfied with fastmail, and there are others out there too, some even free. your message caused me to look at my provider's email services. They never mention IMAP in their entire documentation. -- Dwight A. Corrin 316.303.9385 phone ahead to fax dcorrin at fastmail.fm photo galleries at http://dcorrin.smugmug.com Using IMAP with The Bat! 4.0.20 on Windows Vista version 6,0 () Current version is 4.0.18 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Best way to use The Bat on two home computers?
Guten Morgen, SA 1. Install the new version of The Bat on both the laptop AND the desktop SA (are two licenses needed?), but then set up the mail folder on the SA desktop as a shared folder so that the laptop's The Bat will point to SA folder on the desktop. Is this possible? Yes, I've been working like this for years. You can manage the synchronization part using Window's Offline Folders. This way, if you have downloaded mail with the Laptop disconnected, on returning home you will get a prompt to copy the new files to the desktop or vice versa. If the desktop version hasn't changed in the meantime the synchronization will even be fully automatic. SA 2. Install the new version of The Bat on both the laptop AND the SA desktop, but also copy all mail from the desktop to the laptop so that SA both computers have all mail on their hard drives. Allow either machine SA to download e-mail, but set up some sort of automatic synchronization SA between the two machines. Again, is this possible? If so, how would it SA be done? Well, yes. You could use a program like Second Copy (http://www.secondcopy.com) which could even run automatcally with as few prompts as possible. However, it would be about the same as the first option, just with a seperate program instead of Window's built-in mechanism. -- MfG, Altomailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpJq4QRFh8F2.pgp Description: PGP signature Current version is 4.0.18 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Best way to use The Bat on two home computers?
On Friday, March 28, 2008, 5:42:31 PM, Alto Speckhardt wrote: Yes, I've been working like this for years. You can manage the synchronization part using Window's Offline Folders. This way, if you have downloaded mail with the Laptop disconnected, on returning home you will get a prompt to copy the new files to the desktop or vice versa. If the desktop version hasn't changed in the meantime the synchronization will even be fully automatic. There is no reason why one cannot collect one's mail on both the laptop and the desktop. Saves lots of trouble. Just need to bcc yourself. Better yet, switch to IMAP and leave POP behind. You'll be glad you did. -- Dwight A. Corrin 316.303.9385 phone ahead to fax dcorrin at fastmail.fm photo galleries at http://dcorrin.smugmug.com Using IMAP with The Bat! 4.0.18.7 on Windows XP version 5,1 (Service Pack 2) Current version is 4.0.18 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Best way to use The Bat on two home computers?
On Friday, March 28, 2008, 6:05:57 PM, Alto Speckhardt wrote: Yes, there is: If you play it like this every time before you leave your home you have to power up the laptop, start TheBat, receive mail and shut it down. If you use the shared folder method you just have to switch the laptop on, let it work for a while and switch it off again to bring it up to speed with the desktop. This is much quicker and more convenient. I collected mail on both for years without a problem. Just leave the mail on the server a few days, how many would depend on how often you use the laptop. It is not just quick and convenient, but totally transparent. -- Dwight A. Corrin 316.303.9385 phone ahead to fax dcorrin at fastmail.fm photo galleries at http://dcorrin.smugmug.com Using IMAP with The Bat! 4.0.18.7 on Windows XP version 5,1 (Service Pack 2) Current version is 4.0.18 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Best way to use The Bat on two home computers?
On Friday, March 28, 2008, 6:05:57 PM, Alto Speckhardt wrote: Avram spoke of going to v4. It would probably not be wise to do this while using IMAP. don't see why not. works fine for me. -- Dwight A. Corrin 316.303.9385 phone ahead to fax dcorrin at fastmail.fm photo galleries at http://dcorrin.smugmug.com Using IMAP with The Bat! 4.0.18.7 on Windows XP version 5,1 (Service Pack 2) Current version is 4.0.18 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
