[Novices] BestPractice: How to share email accounts between computers.

[Andrew Thompson]

On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 15:25 -0500, Mark Jones wrote:
> Now that I am exploring evolution, I come upon the problem of having two
> computers.  I'm wondering what the best practice is to handle email
> accounts between multiple computers.  The desktop at home is always
> running with Evolution.  When I am on the road, I want to access the
> email via my laptop.  What is the best way to do this?  The account is
> on a third party email server, if that is significant.

I'm with Bruce on this one. IMAP's your best bet, if your provider
supports it. Many don't/won't, because they don't want people leaving
mail on their servers. One FREE provider I know DOES support it is
fastmail.fm and its associates. Of course, you COULD set up your own
IMAP server and use fetchmail to pull in all the mail from your
provider, but that might be more than you wanted to think about right
now. :)

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Andrew Thompson <tempes at ameritech.net>
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