Hello Thomas! On Wednesday, August 03, 2005, 9:07 AM, you wrote:
scc>> ... A major reason for setting up TB on both the laptop as well scc>> as well as the PC is to allow us to use the laptop to check mail scc>> while in other parts of our house, without having to go to the scc>> basement (dungeon) office. > OK, what you want is to have all messages available on both computers. > I do that with POP, using the office computer and the home computer. > The longest time I stay away from the office computer is, say, four > days. So, the home computer is set to delete messages from the server > after five days from my private account. (The company messages are > deleted automatically after 30 days from the server, so I have no > setting in TB to delete those.) So, Avi could presumably set a few days as the automatic deletion time on the PC. And if he happens to take the laptop out of town for more than that length of time, he could do a manual delete through the Message Dispatcher. On my two POP3 accounts (the only TB! accounts that I have) I delete nearly all my messages from the server manually, from the Message Dispatcher. However, I have TB! set to delete Read messages from the server after 3 days--just as a backup. > IMAP is supposed to allow you access to the same message base from > different computers, but I have never used it and do think it would be > an overkill for your purposes. But then, the same policy as I > described for POP may work as well. Not only overkill for Avi's purposes. Another drawback to using IMAP with 3.51.10 is that it is still not usable for some people, per reports on TBBETA. TB!'s IMAP is still a work in progress, and is one focus of the on-going beta series, post-3.51.10. -- Best regards, Mary The Bat! 3.51.10 on Windows XP 5.1 2600 Service Pack 2 ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.51.10 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
