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So I am going off to college and I want my Thunderbird Mailbox on my Laptop to be in synch with the Thunderbird Mailbox on my PC (which is going to be a 2 hour drive away and likely turned off while I am gone).

I would like a solution that is ab it more eloquent than copy pasting mailboxes between computers when ever they are near each other.

Anybody know of a good (and preferably simple solution?

Besides "Use IMAPI", I have multiple email accounts, they are all POP3 because Webmail to POP3 converters are the easiest to find. :) *COUGH*Hotmail*COUGH*

Oh, and hotmail has been horribly unreliable lately, either dropping messages entirely, or not letting them go through for days(!) at a time. I would migrate to GMail, but, umm, I need Pop3 access!

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    1. Run your own mail server with IMAP and webmail. *Thats what i did)
    2. Buy an IMAP account on someone elses server
    3. Buy a mac and get .mac
    4. use rsync or unison to keep your folders in sync (risky)
    5. Forward all your mail to a gmail account
    I would just avoid using pop3. Why is that a requirement?
    • 3. Buy a mac and get .mac

      You don't necessarly need a mac for .mac to work. If you think the iDisk and IMAP mail is worth $100, then it could be a good deal. I never really used the other crap that came with it anyway.
      • I would just avoid using pop3. Why is that a requirement?

      Because I get my Hotmail and ISP email through POP3, and most programs to download mail from a webmail account to a e-mail client use POP3.

      • Run your own mail server with IMAP and webmail. *Thats what i did)

      That is what I was thinking, but this computer is going to most likely be off while I am away at college, and if something happens to it I have no way to reboot/fix it from campus, thus nixing this idea.

      • Buy an IMAP account on someone elses se
      • Because I get my Hotmail and ISP email through POP3, and most programs to download mail from a webmail account to a e-mail client use POP3.

        Not a problem if you use Spamcop (as I have for two years now) - they hoover your Hotmail (and Yahoo, AOL etc) accounts themselves, into an IMAP mailbox.

        That is what I was thinking, but this computer is going to most likely be off while I am away at college, and if something happens to it I have no way to reboot/fix it from campus, thus nixing this idea.

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        • You know why all of this pisses me off? Because it should be so much simpler. What the hell is an Art student going to do if they go away to college? They don't know what IMAP or POP3 is, or how to setup a mail server.

          This is all ridicules, my E-Mail program should be a networked app where I type in a domain and I go to a site and my E-Mail program is THERE. JAVA should be the technology putting this all together, but Sun screwed that one up (and keeps screwing it up) by refusing to offer any sort of p

      • That is what I was thinking, but this computer is going to most likely be off while I am away at college, and if something happens to it I have no way to reboot/fix it from campus, thus nixing this idea.



        I'm not sure what kind of other solution you want, just a way to keep two files synced? you could use windows briefcase for that (I think, i don't really know since I use os-x and my own mailhost.) Why not run the imap server on the college computer?

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