Emails!

[NewbieContractor]

Hi,

hope you can help.

Im currently fed up of being away for a computer for a couple of days and getting 500 emails. I mean, i can access them from my PDA, come in and they are all on my laptop still...

I know you can use MO Exchange to log on so when working from my office PC. All is synchronised instantly. but i have been qouted over 6k to set up a server and have this

Is there another way or downloading emails to my PDA and it NOT putting them on to my laptop too??

thanks!

[Cowboy Bob]

Use an IMAP server. That way the e-mails are never on either your PDA or Laptop, but are on your server and you just read them remotely.

[NoddY]

Isn't this what IMAP was invented for?

[Kyajae]

Hi,

I know you can use MO Exchange to log on so when working from my office PC. All is synchronised instantly. but i have been qouted over 6k to set up a server and have this

thanks!

PDAs are pretty old rope now.

Most modern mobiles like the O2 Exec XDA or the Nokia 9300i can send/receive emails via a mobile provider's Wirelss Access Point allowing you to access your Exchange server.

[Ardesco]

IMAP !!


Just to join in with the general consensus

[freakydancer]

Defintely IMAP.

[Euro-commuter]

Defintely IMAP.

IMAP. So simple even I can do it, and I'm "not a real IT person" (AtW). If you're always connected, why store your mails anywhere but on the mail server?

[kirk]

Did anyone mention IMAP??

[xoggoth]

If you are just getting crud on certain addresses that you have been a bit free with, I find the freeware Popcorn mail is good. Set it up on the laptop up to get mails on the most spammed addresses. You can download just the headers, have a quick check, unmark anything that might be genuine and delete the rest from host.

[Clippy]

If you are just getting crud on certain addresses that you have been a bit free with, I find the freeware Popcorn mail is good. Set it up on the laptop up to get mails on the most spammed addresses. You can download just the headers, have a quick check, unmark anything that might be genuine and delete the rest from host.

Cheers Xog, this looks quite good. Linky