Synchronizing two TB! mailboxes on different computers
Hello, I'm currently using The Bat! 1.53d at home and would like to use it at work on my laptop as well. Mostly I bring my laptop with me when I'm leaving the office, but not always. When I do, I will use the laptop to read my mails, but when I don't I will of course use my desktop at home. Now comes the tricky part. When I bring my laptop home I would like to synchronize the mailboxes from the different computers so that they look exactly the same. A mail sent from my laptop should show up in my sent folder on both computers and of course a mail sent from my stationary should show up in the sent folder of my laptop as well. If you have used Outlook on a laptop you know what I mean, when you come back to the office and plug the network cable in the local mailbox is synchronized with the server's mailboxes. Is it possible to use The Bat! this way? I suppose I can run The Bat! in server mode at my stationary and as a client on my laptop, but will I still be able to send mail from the laptop when I'm not connected to my stationary? And will the mailboxes automatically synchronize when the two Bats get in contact with each other? (I'm sorry for all my words, english isn't my native language and it's pretty annoying trying to explain what I mean in a language I don't speak or write fluent) Regards, Marcus Ohlström -- Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Vers: 1.53d FAQ: http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com
Re: Synchronizing two TB! mailboxes on different computers
On 25 January 2002 at 11:02 am Marcus wrote: Hello, I'm currently using The Bat! 1.53d at home and would like to use it at work on my laptop as well. Mostly I bring my laptop with me when I'm leaving the office, but not always. When I do, I will use the laptop to read my mails, but when I don't I will of course use my desktop at home. Now comes the tricky part. When I bring my laptop home I would like to synchronize the mailboxes from the different computers so that they look exactly the same. A mail sent from my laptop should show up in my sent folder on both computers and of course a mail sent from my stationary should show up in the sent folder of my laptop as well. If you have used Outlook on a laptop you know what I mean, when you come back to the office and plug the network cable in the local mailbox is synchronized with the server's mailboxes. Is it possible to use The Bat! this way? I suppose I can run The Bat! in server mode at my stationary and as a client on my laptop, but will I still be able to send mail from the laptop when I'm not connected to my stationary? And will the mailboxes automatically synchronize when the two Bats get in contact with each other? (I'm sorry for all my words, english isn't my native language and it's pretty annoying trying to explain what I mean in a language I don't speak or write fluent) You explained it excellently :) Unfortunately, not many people (myself included) seem to use the client-server functionality; I would always use Workstation with TCP/IP (Options | Network Administration), so can't help directly. That said, I use two [manual] methods to synchronise between two machines: 1. Exporting and importing Unix mbox files (Tools | Export Messages); 2. more rarely Synchronisation (Tools | Synchronisation). The first, for less than about 20 or 30 messages a day, works quite well. Alastair This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com -- Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Vers: 1.53d FAQ: http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com
Re: Synchronizing two TB! mailboxes on different computers
At 14:34 2002-01-25, you wrote: Unfortunately, not many people (myself included) seem to use the client-server functionality; I would always use Workstation with TCP/IP (Options | Network Administration), so can't help directly. That said, I use two [manual] methods to synchronise between two machines: 1. Exporting and importing Unix mbox files (Tools | Export Messages); 2. more rarely Synchronisation (Tools | Synchronisation). The first, for less than about 20 or 30 messages a day, works quite well. I think exporting and importing would be a little bit annoying after a while, since it involves to many actions to do on a daily basis, especially if I want to synchronize more than one folder (which I do, I would like to synchronize all folders). Even more, as I remember the export and import tools, it does not remember the status of the messages (i.e. read/unread, answered and so forth). I do not have access to The Bat! right now which means I can't try it, but I'm pretty sure it works that way. Tools-Synchronization seems more interesting. Have you used this? Does it preserve message status as described above? What happens if I have the same message on both computers, does they show up twice in each mailbox or is The Bat! smart enough to recognize identically messages? The best would be if I could synchronize both instances of my mail database with one single action, i.e. if I don't have to do anything more than pointing out the two directories containing the databases and start the operation. Regards, Marcus Ohlström Using The Bat! 1.53d on W2K Pro SP2. -- Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Vers: 1.53d FAQ: http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com
Re[2]: Synchronizing two TB! mailboxes on different computers
Marcus, On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, at 15:06:29 [GMT +0100] (which was 7:36 PM where I live) you wrote: MO he best would be if I could synchronize both instances of my mail database MO with one single action, i.e. if I don't have to do anything more than MO pointing out the two directories containing the databases and start the MO operation. I am giving below a snipped content from a mail on this subject earlier. Say you've been using the laptop for a while and wish to switch to using the desktop. You wish to update the desktops TB! installation so that the templates and mail folders will be like the laptops. You'd do the following: a) On the desktop, start the synchronisation panel and run step 1. What this does is create a snapshot of the settings and mail folder structure/content, present in the desktop installation. Copy the file generated during this process to a zip disk. b) On the laptop installation, open the synchronisation panel and select step 2. In this step the laptop installation is compared with that of the desktop using the file on the zip disk. You'll therefore be prompted for this file. It will generate another file. This one will contain all the restoration data to update the desktop installation to be like the laptop installation. You'll be asked to enter a file name of your choice for this restoration file etc. When you're finished, save this new file to a zip disk and go back to the desktop. c) On the desktop, run step 3 in the synchronisation panel. It will ask you for the restoration file that you generated on the laptop in step 2. It will now use the data in that file to update the desktop installation. You're done!! TGIF, Have a great weekend! -- Warm regards, Raj mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I started out with nothing, and I still have most of it. Replied on Friday, January 25, 2002 using TB Ver 1.54 Beta/30 on Windows NT -- Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Vers: 1.53d FAQ: http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com
Re: Synchronizing two TB! mailboxes on different computers
First of all, thanks to everyone who has answered my question. I'm impressed by the quick response! At 15:14 2002-01-25, you wrote: It is smart enough to recognize that, but not if you move a message from one folder to another on one of the systems. It will exist on both locations on the other system after synchronisation. Does this mean that the synchronization tool is not capable of handling deleted messages? If I delete a message on one computer I would of course want it to be deleted on the other as well upon synchronization, not recreated on the first. Regards, Marcus Ohlström Running The Bat! 1.53d on a W2K Pro SP2 machine. -- Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Vers: 1.53d FAQ: http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com
