How do I sync TBird folders in three computers ????

[macmidiguy]

I use the TBird at three different computers in three different office locations/businesses..

Lately it has become a mess trying to sync those three accounts.

I tried to make a copy of the Thunderbird folder in the users Library folder and then paste that folder accordingly in the computer I was working at.

Let's say I started to use computer A and then quit because I had to go to my second office location in another part of this city.

I would make a copy of the TBird folder from computer A to a flash drive and replace the TBird folder in compter B.

This was OK for awhile but soon I discovered that I was loosing mail that I had not read or deferred for reply.




Suggestions/help and advice required please to save the day for me please.

[Freee!!]

Depending on your mail provider, I would suggest using IMAP4 instead of POP3.

I also suggest that -in case IMAP4 isn't possible- you leave the messages on the server until all computers have had a chance to download the messages. Don't forget to Bcc: yourself (automatically).

Either option should minimise the necessity of syncing.

[macmidiguy]

I would suggest using IMAP4 instead of POP3.

is that done thru preference settings or telling my isp ???

[Daifne]

macmidiguy,
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[Broadway Lion]

Are these computers on the same network?
If you are on a Domain, they should already be following you via your roaming profile.

If you are on a home network, you can define a share that is always available as the location for your Thunderbird Profile, then it *should* be available on whatever computer you use on your network.

If these computers are not networked, I'd go with the IMAP option, even if that means opening a new email account with a different provider, and then forwarding from the old provider to the new.

ROAR

[Freee!!]

is that done thru preference settings or telling my isp ???

First you have to make sure your provicers offers the possibility. If not, you might request that the possibility be offered to you. It is up to the provider to do so or not.

[DanRaisch]

Or there is the option to use Thunderbird Portable on a flash drive -- http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/e ... hunderbird

[Daifne]

Removed signature since it wasn't fixed after two days.

[Broadway Lion]

Yes and no.

How do you mount the flash drive? The computer will give it a drive letter, and it might not be the same letter on all machines, depending on what other drives are already set up. I would probably map my Thunderbird profile to T:\Thunderbird and then remap the flash drive so that the computer would recognize it as the T:\ drive. You would have to do that each time you log on to a particular computer. And you would have to set up your Thunderbird profile do do that on all three machines.

ROAR

[DanRaisch]

The drive letter won't matter. The Portable version of Thunderbird does not use the same profile location design as the standard version, that's one of the things that makes it portable. At any given time it can be whatever drive letter is assigned to the flash drive on that particular machine.