E-Mail software with abillity to sync between 2 PCs?

Merlin-TC · l33t Joined: 16 May 2003 Posts: 603 Location: Germany

Hi,

I am searching for an e-mail software I can use on both, my laptop and my main PC.
But I need some kind of sync options between both.
Like that I write it on my laptop and send it from there and after I synced both mail clients it appears in the sent folder of the main PC as well.

Is something like that available for linux?
Thanks for your help.

adaptr · Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2004 11:48 pm Post subject:

You want IMAP.

Run an IMAP server on some (small) machine, and make sure the clients store the sent mail folders and such on the IMAP server; now you will have the same email system from any machine that uses it.

Merlin-TC · l33t Joined: 16 May 2003 Posts: 603 Location: Germany

That sounds good but could you be a little more specific in how to do that and what program to use?

And how can I fetch my mails from my pop3 account and store them on the imap server?

Thanks for your help!

Andersson · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 5:55 pm Post subject:

imap is an alternative to pop3. Check with the people who run your pop mail server, they may already have everything set up for imap as well.

Otherwise, building a mail server yourself just to sync the mail sounds like overkill. Email is just text files -you could easliy make a script to sync the mail. If you use maildir folders it should just be an rsync command.

Merlin-TC · l33t Joined: 16 May 2003 Posts: 603 Location: Germany

Well my mail provider is supporting imap but I would prefer to save all that locally so I don't have to worry about the space I use.
I only got 5MB at my provider and I like to save my mails for a long time