Hi All,
Not sure this is the right spot but here goes. I have my own business, domain name, etc. I use multiple machines - laptop, workstation & handheld (iphone3GS). Is there a way to to have all my email, calender and certain directories of files, etc stay synchronized across the laptop and workstation? Also, it would be nice to have the email and calendar synch'd with the handheld as well. I used MS office 2007 on a win 7 laptop and a Win XP 64 workstation.
I currently have a pop email protocol but I believe I could switch it to IMAP (of which I know nothing) if that could help.
Any help or a link or a search criteria would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Billmce
If you switch to IMAP that will solve your synchronizing problem, as all the mail resides on the server and and all your devices will see the same thing.
Furthermore, if your email is going through GMail (as I have *my* domain email doing) then you can also set up server side filtering and server-side folders (which GMail calls 'labels') so that you don't have to lose filtering capabilities - and it is tons better b/c you are letting *their* servers handle the filtering.
Using applications to keep your
machines synchronized is only as good as the software - if it breaks on one machine, you can easily lose the synchronization, often painfully so. IMAP is really your best solution, provided you don't have any real storage issues (meaning that you're to limited to how much mail you can store on your email server).
As I said, I use GMail for my domain mail, as well as having 2 additional GMail accounts (not associated with my domain). I used to use POP access as well, but over a year ago I took the time to copy all of my downloaded mail back up to the GMail servers, set up all of my filters and folders on the accounts, and let GMail start handling it all. It was a godsend to do this, as in November I bought a Motorola DROID, running the Android OS, and it uses IMAP by default for all GMail / GAFYD accounts. Since I had already performed all of the steps early last year, it was a simple matter of signing in and poof! All of my email from the last several years (that which I have kept, anyway) is there.
it was a time consuming process, especially with one account that has well over 10,000 emails, but in the end, I am much better off for it - I can find any email that I have not deleted any time I want from anywhere I want. This is irrespective of device, too.