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Hi Gene,<br>
<br>
I do what Rich described with multiple computers. I'm using Eudora
OSE, which is based on the Thunderbird code base. (Don't install
Eudora OSE on a system with Thunderbird, as they will conflict.) I
couldn't get IMAP to work reliably and do the sorting and flagging that
I use, so I'm using POP. You don't necessarily have to run your own
server if you don't want to. You an easily have multiple computers set
to poll the same POP server IF you set each one to leave the mail on
the server. If you have 4 computers and 6 accounts, the setup won't be
trivial, but it is doable.<br>
<br>
On the email client for PC 1, set up each of the 6 accounts, with the
correct login credentials. Set the settings for EACH account to leave
mail on the server. If you wish, you can set the auto cleanup options
to delete the mail from the server after 30 days (for example). This
will be the machine who's duty it is to be the primary old mail cleanup
machine.<br>
<br>
On the email client for PC 2, set up the same 6 accounts. Set EACH
account to leave mail on the server for 45 days (for example).<br>
<br>
On the email client for PC 3, set up the same 6 accounts. Set EACH
account to leave mail on the server for 60 days (for example).<br>
<br>
On the email client for PC 4, set up the same 6 accounts. Set EACH
account to leave mail on the server for 75 days (for example).<br>
<br>
You could set some of the latter machines to leave mail on the server
forever, as long as a few machines do have cleanup duty.<br>
<br>
So, under normal circumstances, each system will be downloading email
no more than once every few days, or probably every 10 - 30 minutes if
they're all on. All email more than 30 days old will get deleted from
the server by PC 1 every time it downloads email. All emails will
exist on each machine. When you send an email, CC yourself, and all
machines will get the copy. If you set up your identities properly,
any machine can be used to generate replies with the proper signatures,
etc.<br>
<br>
If PC 1 does not download email for 45 days, PC 2 will start deleting
old mail from the server, and PC 1 will not ever see those messages.
If PC 4 is the only machine running, after 75 days, it will delete old
mail and the others won't get a chance to download it. But, the point
is, the mail doesn't accumulate on the server forever, and, if the
machines are run more frequently than 30 days, everybody gets every
mail. This has the advantage that you can access any message from any
machine and that you have multiple redundant copies of your mail.<br>
<br>
I'm using this system with 3 machines which all dual boot between
Windows and Linux. So, effectively, there are 6 machines. This system
works well for me. I can send and receive mail from any machine and
any OS. The one complication is that I have a number of email filters
which put mailing list messages and such into folders. Those type of
things have to be set up on each machine, which is a bother.
Otherwise, it works nicely.<br>
<br>
Sincerely,<br>
<br>
Ron<br>
<br>
<br>
On 2/22/2012 11:36 AM, Rich Faulkner wrote:
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I use Evolution to pull my various accounts into a single client. POP3
or IMAPI accounts and made active or inactive in "Edit >
Preferences". This is how we gather mail from the four-corners of the
globe into our mailbox. Simple filters take care of the rest of mail
routing as to which folder they go to for reading/sorting. <br>
<br>
I'm sure you can do this with Thunderbird too (or whatever floats your
boat for a mail client)...<br>
<br>
RinL<br>
<br>
<br>
On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 10:57 -0500, Gene Poole wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="CITE"> <font size="2">I know I've asked this
question in the past, but life got in the way of my computers.</font> <br>
<br>
<font size="2">So once again:</font> <br>
<br>
<font size="2">Between my wife and I we must have more that a
half-dozen mail accounts scattered around. What I would like to do, but
I don't know how, would be to automatically go out there and pull all
of our mail messages and add them all to my local mail server and
provide a central location where I could read all of my mail for any of
my four client machines. Does anyone know how this could be done? Do
you need more information about my environment?</font> <br>
<font size="2"> </font> <br>
<font size="2">Thanks In Advance,</font><br>
<font size="2">Gene</font><br>
<br>
<font size="2">+ It's impossible for everything to be true. +</font><br>
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(PS - If you email me and don't get a quick response, you might want to
call on the phone. I get about 300 emails per day from alternate energy
mailing lists and such. I don't always see new messages very quickly.)
Ron Frazier
770-205-9422 (O) Leave a message.
linuxdude AT c3energy.com
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