Hello MFPA, Please see my comments, below.
Friday, February 7, 2014, 1:55:38 PM, you wrote: >> I have added a new laptop, and now want to >> use the desktop for no other purpose than as a >> dedicated "mail server" so that regardless of which >> laptop is on site, the other laptop will be able >> to download and see mail. (When offsite, either >> laptop can use webmail to see the mail.) M> I would think about pointing the Laptop copies of The Bat! to the M> account settings and mail folder on the desktop PC rather than each M> having it own copy. But only if all run the same The Bat! version and M> preferably only one will be used at a time to run The Bat! Thanks for your suggestion. However, both my wife and I have separate home offices and we frequently are using mail at the same time. * * * M> If only one of the three machines will run The Bat! at a time, and if M> all three are the same version, I would designate the mail folder on M> the desktop PC where TB! stores all the messages and settings as a M> shared resource (or map its location as a network drive) and point all M> three The Bat! installations to the same files. Well, as mentioned above, it's just not possible to have only one of the laptops use The Bat! exclusively at any given time. Moreover, we each frequently leave The Bat! open on both machines so both machines are running The Bat! simultaneously a lot. >> This scheme is designed to mimic IMAP without using >> IMAP. I have tried, unsuccessfully to set up IMAP. >> Other than this one, annoying glitch, my current scheme >> seems to work ok. (Well, there is a second glitch >> in that if any mail is downloaded on one laptop, it >> will not appear on the second laptop (if the laptop >> is turned on), until downloaded on the second laptop. M> What about if it is downloaded on the desktop PC? This could be M> scheduled (in Windows scheduler) to periodically open TB!, check mail, M> and (if wanted) exit TB!. Perhaps. Could I schedule a download every five minutes? And do no downloading on the laptops at all? >> However, the mail will then appear in duplicate in >> all of my non-gmail accounts. M> Are you already pointing The Bat! on the first laptop to the M> messagebase on the desktop? If so, shouldn't the message appear when M> the folder is refreshed? And if you are not sharing a messagebase, I M> can't work out the messages would duplicate The properties for each of the accounts appearing on the laptop all point to the desktop MAIL folder (which is at the root of c: on the desktop). While the desktop MAIL folder also has a few additional accounts that I created on the desktop after I set up The Bat! on the laptop, and those accounts all have folders inside the MAIL folder that I can even see while on the laptop, The Bat! e-mail client on the laptop does not have those folders. Is there some lower level folder on the laptop that also needs to point to the MAIL folder in order to automatically set up a folder on the laptop any time one is created on the desktop? M> I suspect gmail ignores any settings to the contrary and deletes the M> message after first download. (Based on my setting to keep emails on M> server for several days after download, which is honoured by all M> except gmail.) >> Running "delete >> duplicates" every once in a while gets rid of the >> duplicates without a whole lot of effort on my part!) M> This could also be automated in Windows Scheduler so that it takes no M> effort at all. See The Bat! help file, under "advanced use." Thanks. That's a good idea. -- Avi Avram Sacks, using The Bat! ver. 5.8.2 on WinXP sp3 ________________________________________________ Current version is 6.1.8 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
