[TriLUG] Email on multiples machines

[Warren Myers]

Can you use IMAP instead of POP?

On 6/26/07, Michael Rulison <13miketele at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> Perhaps  some of you  have coped with this already:
>
> I have desktop (main) and laptop (secondary) machines. They both have
> Win  XP  and the laptop has ubuntu as a dual boot. Email is done with
> Thunderbird  (win) or Evolution (u) or  sometimes  from  an alternative
> location,  not my own,  with web mail. Provider is BellSouth  (att).
>
> I  set things  up so  that only the main  machine  downloads messages
> and  clears the  ISP  machine; others  download but do NOT clear the ISP.
>
> Problem:  only responses from  main machine are available on  it;
> responses from the secondary win and  u instances are available there
> but  no on the main. I could  send copies to myself and get  them on the
> main  machine but only if I could return to download them on the  main
> machine between sessions  on  the  laptop --- an  inconvenient  process.
>
> Ideas?
>
>
>
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