Hi everyone!
Thanks for all your responses.
My situation is a definitive switch from desktop to laptop before leaving
on my trip. The desktop will not be used at all in my absence. Then on my
return I will switch back to the desktop and the laptop will no longer be
used for email.
I can see that setting up the laptop POP3 rules to leave the messages on
the server is the proper way to go, especially if the situation is more
fluid. That allows me to retrieve email with my laptop at any
time. However...
I like the idea of having my entire set of up-to-date mailboxes on the
laptop because I am frequently going back and reviewing earlier emails
(particularly ProFox OT messages!). For that reason, I will probably copy
all mailbox folders (*.fol) and mailboxes (*.mbx/*.toc) to the laptop and
then back again (Paul's original suggestion).
At 08:01 AM 6/12/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>Pete Theisen writes:
>
> > I can see that not working for him, it could lead to the loss of some
> > messages. It would not work for anyone who sometimes used the desktop and
> > sometimes used the laptop and had different messages saved on each. If
> > one of them was "clean" though, or if this system were used every time
> > there was a switch in usage, it would be ok.
>
>Well, yeah, that's true, but I thought thats what he was asking for. If you
>are in a situation where you "sometimes use the laptop, sometimes the
>desktop, and have different messages on each", then I just say "ugh", you
>have problems I don't want to deal with! (If you have such problems you
>should *really* look into IMAP instead of POP).
>
>--
>Paul McNett
>
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