If you want copies of your sent mail on both computers you have to send a copy of all outward emails to yourself. I find this is handy as well as Bob's idea, which I have been using for some years now.
-----Original Message----- From: WAMUG Mailing List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Howells Sent: Thursday, 17 May 2007 12:27 PM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: Mail synchronisation On 17/05/2007, at 12:09 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > > On 17/05/2007, at 12:18 AM, Severin Crisp wrote: > >> We have G3 iMac and a Macbook both with the same login name and >> password and both on OSX 10.4.9. The Macbook was made to mirror >> the iMac using Migration Assistant a few days ago when originally >> setup. Since then there have been Mail operations on the iMac and >> I want to make the Mail on the Macbook match. If I mirror the >> Mail folder using Folders Synchroniser as I use for backups will >> it work or will I wreck Mail on the Macbook? >> Severin Crisp > > Hi Severin, > > If your Mail Account is a POP account, doesn't look as though you can. On a Pop account with Apple Mail - preferences- accounts ( select the account ) -advanced- you can set " remove copy from server .... selection ... after one month " after message first downloaded which means that so long as you log the second computer on within 1 month after the first Mac downloaded the message , the second Mac will receive the message . You need to setup both Mac's with that setting . Bob > If it's a IMAP it is possible. > > From Apple Discussions: > <http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4374039�> > > "Synchronization of local mail data between computers by means of a > file synchronization utility is a really bad idea if more than one > computer is allowed to access mail between synchronizations. > > Mail uses a global Envelope Index file to keep track of every > message within the ~/Library/Mail/ folder. If this file is modified > on both computers between synchronizations, there is no way a file > synchronization utility can handle the situation properly. > > Another more subtle and dangerous issue is that Mail may use > different *.emlx sequence numbers to name the same message on > different computers, or worse yet, the same sequence number to name > different messages. The only thing a file synchronization utility > can do about it is create duplicates of some messages while > overwriting (i.e. losing) others. > > Mail data "synchronization" at the filesystem level can only be > done reliably if it's a one-way operation, i.e. if the entire > contents of the Mail folder on one computer are overwritten by the > entire contents of the Mail folder on the other. You should think > of the ~/Library/Mail folder as if it was a monolithic entity. > > BTW, this is not a Mail thing. Although the granularity may be > different, you would encounter similar issues with any other mail > client because there is no way you can avoid the same files being > modified differently on both computers if you use both between > synchronizations. The only reliable way to achieve mail > synchronization between computers is using an IMAP account and > storing mail on the server. " > > Cheers, > Ronni > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
