Hello Geoff, Friday, January 25, 2002, 7:42:30 PM, you wrote:
<skip> >> Second, set both active accounts to delete received messages from >> the server. Personally, I do this way and it works. The worst >> thing you may run into is that moving the message to another >> folder on one machine duplicates it after synch:( Use filters for >> moving 'numerous classes of messages' and then >> Folder->Kill_dups_in_all_folders. <skip> > Unfortunately, both accounts deleting from the server is not an > option for two reasons. I check mail from my laptop to see > whether anything new has come in -- if my office email server > deletes the message, I can't get at it from the laptop. Also, > I'm not the only user at ch�z nous. If my laptop deletes from > the ISP, the others won't get their mail! > FWIW, being able to block-delete all messages from an account > would do it. The problem is the old messages that come back > from the laptop and the duplicate messages that come via the > other route. If I deleted all messages from the laptop before > syncing, there would be no extra baggage to come back from the > laptop. I see. The suggestion isn't a simple one. I use a similar solution in conjunction with my Linux related mail that I want to read on my w2k laptop and store on my Linux box. I use local proxy mail server Hamster: http://home.knuut.de/tgl/own/hamtools.htm It's easy to install and configure. Real nice program! Hamster collects all mail without deleting it from the server. TB! on laptop then receives the mail from localhost account without deleting also. When I come home and connect my Linux box with my laptop, my Linux mail client gets all may from the laptop and deletes it. Now all mail is in both places. To delete it I use TB! capability to directly manage mail on ISP server. It sounds a bit complicated but it actually works. I have several accounts and thus it's an additional reason to use hamster. Well. Install Hamster on your laptop and let it collect the mail without deleting it. On laptop's TB! create an account that will collect the mail from the Hamster without deleting it. Create an account on your desktop TB! that will collect the mail from Hamster on your laptop and delete the mail. The name of account must be the same as the name of laptop Hamster bound account! Otherwise you won't be able to synchronize them! And never download the mail from ISP directly onto your desktop:) Now both accounts contain exactly the same messages and you can synch them in order all the moves from one folder to another to be reflected. Delete duplicates. Use filters to move messages as much as you can or you'll have to reshuffle messages manually twice:) And now use your actual TB! account (either on desktop or laptop) to manage the mail on server and delete what you want without affecting other users:) OK. Looks a little bit crazy:) Don't take it too seriously, this is just a bunch of suggestion to start with. Anyway, if you share the mail account on your ISP server, you have too few possibilities to do automatic synch. You either have to delete the messages from both clients and then keep the two mailbases in synch or create a kind of proxy (buffer) mail server and share it between clients. -- Best regards, Serge Skorokhodov mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ________________________________________________________ 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
