ICS & email & the like

[TwoRails]

Hi All,

Been working 7 days / week, but might get this weekend off and hopefully I'll find time to hook up the ICS on my systems.

One (another!) thing I'm clueless on is how sharing email and the like happens. I guess that browsers happen normally, but if machine #2 checks and reads emails, then, do the emails still show up on machines #1 and #3? How does this work?

I have only one email account that both of us will be using.

All help is welcome!!

Thanks

TwoRails

[doctorgonzo]

Two questions: what kind of mail account do you have, and what program do you use for e-mail?

I am assuming that you have a POP3 account and you use OE or a similar program for e-mail. If you do have a POP3 account, when you check your e-mail the e-mail program downloads the messages from your ISP's mail server onto your PC. Then it either keeps them on the server, or deletes them. If the e-mail program deletes the messages from the server, both PCs you have that share the 'net connection will not see the same messages. If a copy of the message is kept on the server, then yes, both PCs could be in sync with the messages.

For example, say you check your e-mail with PC #1. You have one message, and your PC gets it. Now, if the message is deleted from the server, it is gone; you can go to PC #2, check you mail, and you will see nothing. If a copy of the message is kept on the server, you can go to PC #2 and check you mail, and you will get that same message.

In OE, you can change if you want a copy of message left on the server by changing your mail account options.

[TwoRails]

Hi doctorgonzo,

Yes, I'm currently using OE (stoped using Netscape when V6 came out). The account is MSN POP3 (MSN not by choice, my last ISP "switched" me over).

I follow you about leaving messages on the server. I checked the Account options and found it, and how to clear the server. I think I'll go with the time delay.

Hmmm.... Just to make sure I follow.... There are 25 new emails, and I download them to PC #1, the local copy of OE now knows that I have them, But, the copy of OE on PC #2 doesn't, so it will D/L the same 25 emails, right?

Thanks for the help, doctorgonzo!!

TwoRails

PS:
If we had multiply accounts, would / could there be a separation? I would guess not.....

[Confused]

If you have multiple accounts you can set your PC's up so that each one only receives it's email in OE, Tools, Accounts, Mail Properties.

Set each PC to receive just the account for that PC. My wife and I do that with Insight. We have 2 accounts with different email ID's and her PC is set up with just her id. amd mine is set for my id.
Chas

[TwoRails]

Hi Confused,

I might have to check into seperate accounts.... It would be handy.

Thanks!

TwoRails

[Computer Hobbyist]

My account allows me to keep my emails on the email server for a period after I download them or until I delete them on the local machine, whichever comes first. That allows me to download my emails both at home and at the office. It would also allow you to download emails to both of your networked computers. I am not on the computer with OE and I can't remember how it's done on OE, but maybe doctorgonzo can tell you. If you want I can tell you how it is done in netscape.

CH

[TwoRails]

Hi Computer Hobbyist

By different accounts, do you mean from the same ISP, or from an ISP and something like HotMail?

Which version of NetScape are you running. I hated V6 and took it off my machine. I still have 4.7 installed, but it's so old it doesn't work with many sites, so I've been using IE mostly anymore. That's using NetScape almost exclusively for years.

TwoRails

[Computer Hobbyist]

I mean I download copies of emails mailed to the same account to two different machines. The ISP has an email server. If you elect to store emails on the ISP's email server until deleted, it will download to both machines as they log on. If you use netscape the ISP will keep the emails on his server until your delete them on your machine. If you use OE (IE's email package) you have the option of keeping your emails on your email server for a period of time after you download them to your machine or until you delete them from your machine. Both netscape and OE automatically delete emails that you have deleted from the ISP's server as soon as you delete them. OE just gives you the option of keeping them on the server for a length of time after you download. Think of it this way, you can either copy the email from the isp's email server or you can cut a email message from the server and paste it to your machine. If you do the later (which I would normally recommend) you can only download them once. If you do the former, you can download the same emails to both machines, unless you delete them from the first machine.

I am using Netscape 6.2.1 for Linux on this machine. I use OE on my office machine. On this machine you go to edit in the mail package > mail & newsgroup account settings >server settings and check leave messages on server and then check delete messages when deleted locally. OE has a similar set up, but I would have to look at the package to remember it exactly.
CH

[TwoRails]

Hi CH,

Thanks for the detailed info!

TwoRails

Edit: PS: When you say "deleted" -- what happens if you move an email to several differernt folders, then eventually move it to the deleted folder? Is it sill removed from the server??

I ask because right now I can't email a friend because his account is full on the server...

Thanks

[Computer Hobbyist]

Originally posted by TwoRails Hi CH, Thanks for the detailed info! TwoRails Edit: PS: When you say "deleted" -- what happens if you move an email to several differernt folders, then eventually move it to the deleted folder? Is it sill removed from the server?? I ask because right now I can't email a friend because his account is full on the server... Thanks

Delete means just that. If you delete the downloaded emails on one of your local machines, a message is conveyed to the mail server to delete the message on the server. Unless you want to have access to your emails from multiple machines, I believe email should be automatically deleted from the email server upon receipt by your local machine. (That is the normal default and the way you are presently receiving emails.) The Netscape and OE options give you greater freedom of choice, but with freedom comes responsiblity. The OE option of automatically deleting them after a reasonable period of time makes sense because it avoids the problem your friend has visited upon himself.

CH

[TwoRails]

Thanks CH !

TwoRails