I'm currently running my POP3 email accounts using Thunderbird on a
Windows 11 desktop but I'm increasingly using a laptop to create files for >various projects.
The desktop is backed up to a Synology 918+ server and, because I'm >increasingly using the laptop, I'm contemplating switching things around
and making the server the repository for files rather than the backup >location.
However, I'm concerned with possibly wrecking Thunderbird by sending and >receiving emails from multiple machines. Would that be an issue? It it
would be, is there a workaround?
I'm currently running my POP3 email accounts using Thunderbird on a
Windows 11 desktop but I'm increasingly using a laptop to create files
for various projects.
The desktop is backed up to a Synology 918+ server and, because I'm increasingly using the laptop, I'm contemplating switching things around
and making the server the repository for files rather than the backup location.
However, I'm concerned with possibly wrecking Thunderbird by sending and receiving emails from multiple machines. Would that be an issue? It it
would be, is there a workaround?
I'm currently running my POP3 email accounts using Thunderbird on a
Windows 11 desktop but I'm increasingly using a laptop to create files
for various projects.
On 23 Jan 2023 at 16:51:16 GMT, "Frank" <home@nowhere.me> wrote:
I'm currently running my POP3 email accounts using Thunderbird on a
Windows 11 desktop but I'm increasingly using a laptop to create files
for various projects.
Your first step is to see if you can access all those POP3 accounts via
IMAP instead. IMAP (and indeed basically every other current mail
protocol) treats the mailserver as the host and any mail clients as locally-caching views on that host; means you can have as many clients
as you like, desktop/laptop/phone/etc connected with no trouble. Filing/deleting/"read" sync as the clients update the server.
POP3 is a "once delivered, gone from the server (unless you engage one
of a series of crappy workarounds that aren't reliable)" protocol, and
really needs to be consigned to the dustbin of history.
Thunderbird will locally cache *all* the mail that the server holds with IMAP, so you're not at risk of not being able to back it up.
Cheers - Jaimie
On 23/01/2023 16:51, Frank wrote:
I'm currently running my POP3 email accounts using Thunderbird on aOn the PC with Thunderbird. Import user and account setting to
Windows 11 desktop but I'm increasingly using a laptop to create files
for various projects.
The desktop is backed up to a Synology 918+ server and, because I'm
increasingly using the laptop, I'm contemplating switching things around
and making the server the repository for files rather than the backup
location.
However, I'm concerned with possibly wrecking Thunderbird by sending and
receiving emails from multiple machines. Would that be an issue? It it
would be, is there a workaround?
somewhere. Then install Thunderbird on laptop and import the setting you saved.
You will have 2 fully working PC/Laptops with all your e mail accounts etc.
Assuming you want all e mails to come to PC in end of day? On laptop go
into e mail account and on server Tab check “leave messages on server” and check “until I delete them”
This way you can use laptop all the time and send and receive e mails
from it. It will keep a copy on server until you log in from PC and
receive your e mails on PC and then copy on server will be deleted.
On 24/01/2023 11:47, Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
On 23 Jan 2023 at 16:51:16 GMT, "Frank" <home@nowhere.me> wrote:
I'm currently running my POP3 email accounts using Thunderbird on a >>>Windows 11 desktop but I'm increasingly using a laptop to create files >>>for various projects.
Your first step is to see if you can access all those POP3 accounts via >>IMAP instead. IMAP (and indeed basically every other current mail
protocol) treats the mailserver as the host and any mail clients as >>locally-caching views on that host; means you can have as many clients
as you like, desktop/laptop/phone/etc connected with no trouble. >>Filing/deleting/"read" sync as the clients update the server.
POP3 is a "once delivered, gone from the server (unless you engage one
of a series of crappy workarounds that aren't reliable)" protocol, and >>really needs to be consigned to the dustbin of history.
Thunderbird will locally cache all the mail that the server holds with >>IMAP, so you're not at risk of not being able to back it up.
Cheers - Jaimie
I seem to remember trying IMAP in the very distant past and finding that
my ISP started to complain that I had reached some kind of storage limit.
Is that usual? Or was it a consequence of how I had set it up?
On 24/01/2023 09:01, Raj Kundra wrote:
On 23/01/2023 16:51, Frank wrote:If I've understood correctly, that's the setup I have now which means
I'm currently running my POP3 email accounts using Thunderbird on aOn the PC with Thunderbird. Import user and account setting to
Windows 11 desktop but I'm increasingly using a laptop to create
files for various projects.
The desktop is backed up to a Synology 918+ server and, because I'm
increasingly using the laptop, I'm contemplating switching things
around and making the server the repository for files rather than the
backup location.
However, I'm concerned with possibly wrecking Thunderbird by sending
and receiving emails from multiple machines. Would that be an issue?
It it would be, is there a workaround?
somewhere. Then install Thunderbird on laptop and import the setting you
saved.
You will have 2 fully working PC/Laptops with all your e mail accounts
etc.
Assuming you want all e mails to come to PC in end of day? On laptop go
into e mail account and on server Tab check “leave messages on server” >> and check “until I delete them”
This way you can use laptop all the time and send and receive e mails
from it. It will keep a copy on server until you log in from PC and
receive your e mails on PC and then copy on server will be deleted.
that, despite having read emails on my laptop, they show as unread on
the desktop and vice versa.
I was hoping/thinking of storing them on my Synology so that reading
them on one machine would show them as read on the other.
why not just use webmail? i use mail.ionos.co.uk to access my email
hosted at Ionos.
No need to install anything or keep an email IMAP file on a NAS.
On 24/01/2023 09:01, Raj Kundra wrote:
On 23/01/2023 16:51, Frank wrote:If I've understood correctly, that's the setup I have now which means
I'm currently running my POP3 email accounts using Thunderbird on aOn the PC with Thunderbird. Import user and account setting to
Windows 11 desktop but I'm increasingly using a laptop to create
files for various projects.
The desktop is backed up to a Synology 918+ server and, because I'm
increasingly using the laptop, I'm contemplating switching things
around and making the server the repository for files rather than the
backup location.
However, I'm concerned with possibly wrecking Thunderbird by sending
and receiving emails from multiple machines. Would that be an issue?
It it would be, is there a workaround?
somewhere. Then install Thunderbird on laptop and import the setting you
saved.
You will have 2 fully working PC/Laptops with all your e mail accounts
etc.
Assuming you want all e mails to come to PC in end of day? On laptop go
into e mail account and on server Tab check “leave messages on server” >> and check “until I delete them”
This way you can use laptop all the time and send and receive e mails
from it. It will keep a copy on server until you log in from PC and
receive your e mails on PC and then copy on server will be deleted.
that, despite having read emails on my laptop, they show as unread on
the desktop and vice versa.
I was hoping/thinking of storing them on my Synology so that reading
them on one machine would show them as read on the other.
On 25/01/2023 in message
<NvicnfBdu6xO20z-nZ2dnZfqn_ednZ2d@brightview.co.uk> Frank wrote:
On 24/01/2023 11:47, Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
On 23 Jan 2023 at 16:51:16 GMT, "Frank" <home@nowhere.me> wrote:
I'm currently running my POP3 email accounts using Thunderbird on a
Windows 11 desktop but I'm increasingly using a laptop to create files >>>> for various projects.
Your first step is to see if you can access all those POP3 accounts via
IMAP instead. IMAP (and indeed basically every other current mail
protocol) treats the mailserver as the host and any mail clients as
locally-caching views on that host; means you can have as many clients
as you like, desktop/laptop/phone/etc connected with no trouble.
Filing/deleting/"read" sync as the clients update the server.
POP3 is a "once delivered, gone from the server (unless you engage one
of a series of crappy workarounds that aren't reliable)" protocol, and
really needs to be consigned to the dustbin of history.
Thunderbird will locally cache all the mail that the server holds with
IMAP, so you're not at risk of not being able to back it up.
Cheers - Jaimie
I seem to remember trying IMAP in the very distant past and finding that
my ISP started to complain that I had reached some kind of storage limit.
Is that usual? Or was it a consequence of how I had set it up?
IMAP leaves mail on the server so you can hit a quota. It will fix your problem though. You could archive old email locally, i.e. move them from
the IMAP server to a local directory to avoid the quota.
On 25/01/2023 in messagefinding that
<NvicnfBdu6xO20z-nZ2dnZfqn_ednZ2d@brightview.co.uk> Frank wrote:
I seem to remember trying IMAP in the very distant past and
limit.my ISP started to complain that I had reached some kind of storage
yourIs that usual? Or was it a consequence of how I had set it up?
IMAP leaves mail on the server so you can hit a quota. It will fix
problem though. You could archive old email locally, i.e. movethem from
the IMAP server to a local directory to avoid the quota.
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