[Ham-Computers] How to "synchronise" mail from Desktop to Laptop

[Dan Violette]

I am not going to answer your synchronize question since I don't believe in
that (I believe problematic).  But, you can set Outlook and I think Outlook
Express to "leave mail on server" when you download.  Along with things like
"delete off server when delete off PC".  This way, you can read and delete
e-mail off server using a secondary machine, but only download and remove
from server wanted e-mail from the primary.  An option setting in the e-mail
program.

Dan, KI6X

-----Original Message-----
From: ham-computers-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:ham-computers-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Philip, KO6BB
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 12:01 AM
To: Computers Ham
Subject: [Ham-Computers] How to "synchronise" mail from Desktop to Laptop

Hi,

I just added an Acer Laptop (Vista Home Premium) to my "'puter inventory". 
This is nearly my first experience with Vista (I helped a friend set his
up), but so far, after all the horror stories I've heard, I've been
pleasantly surprised.  Even the OLD Dos logging program I use for Longwave
beacons runs just fine (that was my biggest fear). . .

In fact, the laptop, with an Intel 2GHz Centrino Duo core, and 3GB of RAM is
running at LEAST as fast as this 3.6GHz Dual core P4 desktop containing 4GB
RAM and running XP (and I always thought this one was a "hotrod").

Anyway, my question is this.  I normally use the desktop for all my Email
(Outlook Express), etc, and haven't yet set up the laptop to receive email
(Microsoft Mail).  That's because I didn't want it to download my mail and
take it off the server before I got it on this one.  The laptop has
something called "Synchronize" to update files against a desktop, the books
that came with the machine are rather "minimal" and don't go into any
details on the software, other than some of the special ACER utilities etc. 
Perhaps they figure that either you know how, or should buy "Vista for
dummies", grin.

Can somebody give me at least a general procedure for synchronizing?  Both
machines are tied into the same router, and I suspect I'll need to set up
the network and file sharing on both, but that's just a guess (I've been
using a 2GB memory stick to copy a lot of stuff over, like programs I want
to run, favorites folder etc.

An interesting side note.  When I first started the machine up, and put the
preliminary stuff in (time zone, name etc), it wasn't connected to my router
yet.  A little window popped up asking me to select a network to connect to.

It turned out that it was "seeing" about 5 different wireless networks in my
neighborhood, a couple quite strong.  I connected to one and the machine
started to update.  Hey, maybe I can cancel my Internet provider (JUST
KIDDING, I wouldn't want to risk somebody hacking it).

Thanks you all in advance.

73 de Phil,  KO6BB
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