Incoming E-Mail to both Desktop & Laptop

[Guest]

Have the same E-Mail address on a 6 month old desktop with XP-Outlook Expess
and a new laptop with Vista Home Premium-Window E-Mail. The desktop is
connected thru a router. Receiving some incoming on one or the other but not
both. How can I get all to the desktop while home and all to the laptop while
away in a Wi-Fi area?

UWTW&G

 

[Nita Klew]

You have to configure one machine to leave a copy of messages on the server
so that when it downloads messages, it doesn't remove them before the other
can get to them. The usual scenario is to have one machine be the "main"
machine that automatically removes messages from the server. The other
secondary machine never removes messages from the server. The only drawback
to this approach is that the secondary machine won't get all e-mail
messages. You'll have to forward messages it didn't get back to the original
e-mail address.



You can also configure things so that neither machine automatically removes
messages from the server. But you'll have to come up with some scheme to
remove them at some point so you don't keep getting the same messages over
and over on both machines. The options for leaving messages on the server
are on the Advanced tab of the Properties sheet for the e-mail account.



The other choice is to use Web mail on both machines, so that neither
removes messages from the server. Then manually delete messages in the usual
manner for Web mail.

 

[Brian Bradley]

To accomplish that, I set all instances of my email accounts in all e-mail
clients on all computers to

"Leave a Copy of Messages on Server."

In each e-mail client (Outlook, Windows Mail, etc.), go to: Tools ,
Accounts , Properties , Advanced.

Then check the box "Leave a Copy of Messages on Server."

Without this feature enabled, when you download messages from your ISP's
server, they are no longer available to download to a different computer.

Is this what you were asking about? Does this help?

 

[Guest]

Thanx Brian,

Same incoming msgs to both now after following your steps.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Careful. At some point you'll exceed the storage limit on the
server, and your ISP will stop accepting new incoming email
for you.

Gary VanderMolen

 

[Guest]

Will the server limit be exceeded even if I delete mgs. daily?

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Not likely. Even the smaller ISPs give you at least 10 MB
of storage.

Gary VanderMolen