On Thursday, July 1, 2004, 8:50:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If anyone has the energy and perspicacity to see their way through the > trials and tribulations I have been through I would welcome realistic > advice.
I have had a look through, and I am not sure if my arrangement will help. I have a similar situation, with a Desktop PC and a Laptop. I use the laptop whilst travelling, and this can use a variety of SMTP settings depending on where I am accessing the internet from (office LAN, mobile, or home network). My current arrangement is to synchronize all messages from the desktop to the laptop whenever i go away. This ensures that i have all the messages that I send and received on my desktop machine are with me when I go away. I have set both machines to leave messages on the server for 3 days, which ensures that I get the messages to both machines, and in particular that I can leave both machines running and still collect mail on the laptop. If there are sent messages that I need to transfer from the laptop to the desktop, then I occasionally do a reserve synch of sent messages from the laptop to the desktop. I keep the desktop clear of old messages, and occasionally backup the desktop installation, and reinstall it onto the laptop, which brings the messages back into synch. This does mean I lose the laptop account settings, so I don't do it very often. I find this arrangement quite workable. It would be better to have true synchronisation (I use Laplink, but it does not sound like it works at the level of the software you use), as it would deal with deleted mail, but even Laplink struggles with this, and will attempt to recopy deleted files and folders. Julian -- Using The Bat! v2.11.02 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1 ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.11.02 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
