Same email account on two different computers???

veruccasalt

I wonder if anyone can help please?

Today I bought myself a gorgeous new laptop that I am in the process of setting up. Currently I use my desktop for everything, including emails.

What I would like to know is this:

Can I set the same email account up on my laptop and desktop. (I use outlook express on my desktop) If I do this, will all messages arrive at both computers? And if I delted it from one, will it be deleted from the other?

Can anyone advise the best way to organise my email account over two different computers.

Thanks for any help

macman

Yes you can set up same account on both computers. Messages will normally arrive at the computer you first acess them from. However you can set it in Preferences to save messages on the ISP's server for a set period.
Deleting from one will not delete from the other, assuming you are using OE on both. You could use the webmail account only on one computer which will leave the OE account with full access on the other one.

Little_John

you can set both accounts up on both PC's no problem but a standard configuration you can only download an email from the server to the client once. so each message will only end up on 1 machine and your email will be split over the 2 machines. What you can do is configure one or both to leave messages on the server so both PC's can download all the mail. If you want you can be really cleaver and configure one or more to leave messages on the server for a number of days before deleting them from the server but you can only really do that if you check your mail regularly on both PC's at least more often than the deletion period and you will get all mail on both machines. I usually have 2 machines checking and one machine set to delete after 7 days.

Marty_J

You should look into an email service which allows you to access your email using IMAP.

Lakeuk

Marty_J wrote: »

You should look into an email service which allows you to access your email using IMAP.

Google Mail does IMAP

http://mail.google.com/

Marty_J

That's who I linked to I believe.

Lakeuk

Marty_J wrote: »

That's who I linked to I believe.

didn't notice the imap was a link

redux

You might set the laptop to leave messages on the server, then the desk one to download them as the master, but if you want a complete record on both you'd set both to leave then one to delete from server after a few days, as Little John suggests

To actually set this up: in Outlook Express, go to Tools > Options > [select one] then Properties > Advanced, then under Delivery there's a tick box to leave on the server, and options to delete after a time

Marty_J

Lakeuk wrote: »

didn't notice the imap was a link

No worries!

redux wrote: »

You might set the laptop to leave messages on the server, then the desk one to download them as the master, but if you want a complete record on both you'd set both to leave then one to delete from server after a few days, as Little John suggests

To actually set this up: in Outlook Express, go to Tools > Options > [select one] then Properties > Advanced, then under Delivery there's a tick box to leave on the server, and options to delete after a time

IMAP is by far the easiest and most elegant way to synchronise your mail across several devices.

If your email provider doesn't let you access your mail with IMAP, then you have a toy email account.

spud17

If your email provider doesn't let you access your mail with IMAP, then you have a toy email account.

Or use your Gmail account to "fetch" non IMAP mail.

chunter

IMAP is by far the easiest and most elegant way to synchronise your mail across several devices.

If your email provider doesn't let you access your mail with IMAP, then you have a toy email account.

Sweeping statement.
"IMAP keeps all emails on the server until you erase them."
Maybe most people may find this just too much hassle.