On 25 January 2002 at 11:02 am Marcus wrote: > Hello,
> I'm currently using The Bat! 1.53d at home and would like to use it at work > on my laptop as well. Mostly I bring my laptop with me when I'm leaving the > office, but not always. When I do, I will use the laptop to read my mails, > but when I don't I will of course use my desktop at home. > Now comes the tricky part. When I bring my laptop home I would like to > synchronize the mailboxes from the different computers so that they look > exactly the same. A mail sent from my laptop should show up in my sent > folder on both computers and of course a mail sent from my stationary > should show up in the sent folder of my laptop as well. > If you have used Outlook on a laptop you know what I mean, when you come > back to the office and plug the network cable in the local mailbox is > synchronized with the server's mailboxes. > Is it possible to use The Bat! this way? I suppose I can run The Bat! in > server mode at my stationary and as a client on my laptop, but will I still > be able to send mail from the laptop when I'm not connected to my > stationary? And will the mailboxes automatically synchronize when the two > Bats get in contact with each other? > (I'm sorry for all my words, english isn't my native language and it's > pretty annoying trying to explain what I mean in a language I don't speak > or write fluent) You explained it excellently :) Unfortunately, not many people (myself included) seem to use the client-server functionality; I would always use Workstation with TCP/IP (Options | Network & Administration), so can't help directly. That said, I use two [manual] methods to synchronise between two machines: 1. Exporting and importing Unix mbox files (Tools | Export Messages); 2. <more rarely> Synchronisation (Tools | Synchronisation). The first, for less than about 20 or 30 messages a day, works quite well. Alastair ________________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com ________________________________________________________________________ -- ________________________________________________________ Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Vers: 1.53d FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com
