Here’s the deal, have a number of email accounts, lets call them:
email01 – POP3 with a rubbish webmail system, had it a long time, gets around 20 spam mails a day but also maybe 1-2 real mails I care about.
email02 – POP3 with pretty good webmail system, this is my main email, using my ISPs servers and associated with my domain name so I can pick up mail sent to [email protected]. It reseives maybe 30 spam mails a day but the ISP has a really good spam filter so these don’t end up in my inbox, but instead can be checked through the webmail system.
email03 – a gmail account that I hardly really use at all.
And a number of devices:
Vista Desktop – using Outlook 2003
Leopard Desktop
Tiger Macbook
Nokia E61i
Objectives – to be able to:
What I do at the moment is maintain a comprehensive mail store on the Vista/Outlook box. When using the Leopard or Tiger machines I only use email02 and use the webmail system (so mail stays on the ISP servers) with a BCC to myself when sending. When I eventually get back to the Vista/Outlook machine I download all the mail from the ISP and manually move all the sent mails I’ve received form myself as BCC into the Sent folder. This keeps everything up to date on the PC however it has the following problem:
The Leopard/Tiger machines don’t have a store of historic received or sent email. They are only using webmail from the ISPs servers, which gets downloaded onto the PC ~every day, so often I can’t reply as I need to refer to an older message.
So – what should I do? I want to keep a comprehensive off line copy on the Vista/Outlook machine. I’m thinking gmail might be the solution I’m looking for as it would be a way of keeping everything accessible from all devices.
Can gmail be used with POP3/Outlook to download everything (sent and received) whilst leaving everything on the gmail servers and therefore accessible from the other machines?
How reliable is gmail? Long term prognosis? Can I use gmail to manage my existing domain name – so I can keep using the same address?
Apologies for the ramble!
email01 – POP3 with a rubbish webmail system, had it a long time, gets around 20 spam mails a day but also maybe 1-2 real mails I care about.
email02 – POP3 with pretty good webmail system, this is my main email, using my ISPs servers and associated with my domain name so I can pick up mail sent to [email protected]. It reseives maybe 30 spam mails a day but the ISP has a really good spam filter so these don’t end up in my inbox, but instead can be checked through the webmail system.
email03 – a gmail account that I hardly really use at all.
And a number of devices:
Vista Desktop – using Outlook 2003
Leopard Desktop
Tiger Macbook
Nokia E61i
Objectives – to be able to:
- Receive and send email from all of those four devices.
- To maintain a record of all received and sent emails accessible on the three computers.
What I do at the moment is maintain a comprehensive mail store on the Vista/Outlook box. When using the Leopard or Tiger machines I only use email02 and use the webmail system (so mail stays on the ISP servers) with a BCC to myself when sending. When I eventually get back to the Vista/Outlook machine I download all the mail from the ISP and manually move all the sent mails I’ve received form myself as BCC into the Sent folder. This keeps everything up to date on the PC however it has the following problem:
The Leopard/Tiger machines don’t have a store of historic received or sent email. They are only using webmail from the ISPs servers, which gets downloaded onto the PC ~every day, so often I can’t reply as I need to refer to an older message.
So – what should I do? I want to keep a comprehensive off line copy on the Vista/Outlook machine. I’m thinking gmail might be the solution I’m looking for as it would be a way of keeping everything accessible from all devices.
Can gmail be used with POP3/Outlook to download everything (sent and received) whilst leaving everything on the gmail servers and therefore accessible from the other machines?
How reliable is gmail? Long term prognosis? Can I use gmail to manage my existing domain name – so I can keep using the same address?
Apologies for the ramble!
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