E-Mail Synchronisation

Malice

I'm hoping someone can help me out with this. I work from both an office and at home. I don't have a laptop so I use two desktop machines, both of which are connected to the Internet. I have one e-mail address for work-related topics and I would like to be able to track this e-mail address from both the office and from home. It's a small business so we are not using MS Exchange or anything like that for our e-mail, we just use the e-mail functionality as provided by the website hosting company.

One possible solution, I think, is to continue to use my e-mail address name@company.com in the office and then create an e-mail forwarder which will send messages to name_home@company.com which I will use from the home computer. I will use name@company.com to send e-mails from regardless of whether I'm in the office or at home.

The benefit of this is that I will be able to track e-mails from both computers. The problem is that I won't be able to track Sent Items as they will vary depending on which computer I'm using.

Does anyone have any suggestions or advice about how best to go about this?

aidan_walsh

IMAP?

seamus

IMAP sounds like the weapon of choice.

CiaranC

we just use the e-mail functionality as provided by the website hosting company.

Can you expand on this? Is it POP3, IMAP, webmail, what?

Snowbat

+1 for IMAP. A correctly configured client will store a copy of any sent messages in the Sent folder on the IMAP server.

Check if your hosting company offers an IMAP service
or
Look at using Gmail for your domain
or
Install Linux on an old PC and add an IMAP package (I use CourierIMAP here - give me a shout if you need help configuring it)

Malice

aidan_walsh wrote: »

IMAP?

seamus wrote: »

IMAP sounds like the weapon of choice.

Sorry guys, I'm clueless when it comes to some things and IMAP is one of them . Could you elaborate on how that would help?

CiaranC wrote: »

Can you expand on this? Is it POP3, IMAP, webmail, what?

Sure, it's a Hosting365 server using POP for sending e-mail and SMTP for receiving e-mail.

I don't know if it's applicable but we use MS Outlook in the office and I have it installed at home also. I have no problem moving to a different application if necessary.

Edit: Just seen Snowbat's message.

Snowbat wrote: »

+1 for IMAP. A correctly configured client will store a copy of any sent messages in the Sent folder on the IMAP server.

Check if your hosting company offers an IMAP service
or
Look at using Gmail for your domain
or
Install Linux on an old PC and add an IMAP package (I use CourierIMAP here - give me a shout if you need help configuring it)

I will get onto Hosting365 and see what they have to say. That GMail link looks interesting. I wil also have a read of that.

What IMAP client would you recommend? CourierIMAP?

CiaranC

Webmail sounds like the simplest solution for you. Hosting365 can provide this, if they dont already. I think squirrelmail comes with most hosting packages these days.

This entails using a web browser to log on to your mail account (usually at http://mail.domain.com) from anywhere you like. You are not tied to using an email client like outlook in this case.

Snowbat

malice_ wrote: »

What IMAP client would you recommend? CourierIMAP?

Courier IMAP is an IMAP server program - it comes with most Linux distros. You might use this if you were setting up an email server in your office.

For IMAP clients we use Thunderbird or Outlook Express on Windows and Kmail on Linux. Outlook also supports IMAP.

Hosting365 lists Courier IMAP (and RoundCube webmail) in Open Source mail solutions - http://www.hosting365.com/software/email