Best way to sync/share email between two PCs?

[NFS4]

I'm not too much into different email/server programs or how they all work. I'm just a simple guy

But for the past three years, I've been using Mozilla Thunderbird as my main email client for personal and work use on my desktop. I have my @yahoo.com account and two work email accounts. All three are POP accounts.

I have all three setup in Thunderbird and all three email accounts feed into their own respective folders with no problems.

The problem comes in with the new Samsung Q1 Ultra UMPC that I recently bought. I want to be able to access all of my mail from it as well, not just on my desktop.

For now, if I want to access email on my Samsung Q1 Ultra, I use webmail for all three accounts and have Thunderbird shut down or set to work offline on my desktop. That way, I can just go to mail.yahoo.com or my work webmail servers to access new email if need be. Then when I go back to my desktop, it just dumps down all the emails.

That's all well and good, but I can't access any old email that is on my desktop PC, just new mail.

If I set the email program to leave mail on the server, would both my desktop and Q1 Ultra still both be able to grab mail and not conflict with each other -- that is if I'm running Thunderbird on both machines???

Or do I need something like Exchange?

 

[NFS4]

Anyone?

 

[Nothinman]

POP is a terrible protocol and isn't designed to be accessed from multiple clients at all. Personally I run my own IMAP server so I can switch clients whenever I want and all of my mail is always in the exact same place, sorted the same way, etc.

 

[shawn130c]

Originally posted by: NFS4
If I set the email program to leave mail on the server, would both my desktop and Q1 Ultra still both be able to grab mail and not conflict with each other -- that is if I'm running Thunderbird on both machines???

Both your desktop and Q1 should be able to grab mail and should not conflict. But the only way to know is to try it, the only problem you might run into is hitting your mailbox size limit and you have to reset up folders ect, but depending on how daily you check it, I would recommend removing mail after 2-5 days if you get close to hitting your limit.

Also it should not matter if your using Thunderbird or outlook or whatever i am pretty sure all email clients have a leave message on server option for pop accounts. I know the way i have it setup at work is that i primarily check my email by remoting into our server and then also have my email setup on another computer to sync it and my calendar with my treo. Also i have Thunderbird portable setup on my usb flash drive, just in case i need to check it from another computer and all those work fine, with the leave message on server, but i do have set to remove them after 3 days.