Leonidas Jones wrote:
Willard wrote:
Leonidas Jones wrote:
Willard wrote:
Is there a way to add only the new mail to PC#1 from PC#2 and visa
versa
in each profile using 1.1.18 on WinXPproSP3 ???
Can you give a whole lot more information about your setup and what
you are trying to accomplish? Your question as stated is requiring us
to guess way to much.
Lee
For instance: PC-1 Profile-A has messages dated 2-11-10 in the Inbox,
Drafts, Templets, Sent, Trash...
PC-2 Profile-A has messages dated 2-10-10 in the Inbox, Drafts,
Templets, Sent, Trash...
How can I add all of the PC-1 2-11-10 messages to PC-2 Profile-A, and
all of the PC-2 2-10-10 messages to PC-1 Profile-A; using a flash drive
to copy to and from PC-1 to PC-2???
You still don't tell us whether these are POP or IMAP accounts. I
assume POP, since IMAP mail would almost certainly be left on the server.
Navigate to your profile folder on one of the computers, find the mail
subfolder then the subfolder for the account from which you wish to
transfer data.
Copy the files Inbox, Drafts, Sent, whatever, without extension. Copy
these files to your flash drive. Rename them to something like
Oldinbox, etc.
Paste these renamed files into the profile of your second computer,
alongside the existing Inbox, etc. Open SeaMonkey.
You will see new folders in your folderpane, called Oldinbox, etc. Drag
and drop messages to reorganize them as you wish. You then recopy the
combined files and transfer them to the original computer.
To simplify this in the future, set one of the machines to leave a copy
of messages on the server. Make sure that machine has received the
messages before downloading them on the other machine, which would
remove them from the server. There is no convenient way to do this for
Drafts and Sent folders etc. at least on a POP account.
Actually, there's a much more convenient way to do this for networked
computers -- or in a setting where you can easily copy a folder from one
computer to the other. I've been doing this for years, but haven't
tested it yet on version 2. This assumes that only one computer at a
time is being used to access the mail accounts, not that both computers
are taking turns downloading mail, with each having some of the new mail.
With SeaMonkey closed on both computers, navigate on the computer with
the older version of your mail to C:\Documents and Settings\Your Name
Here\Application Data\ and rename \Mozilla\ to \OldMozilla\.
On the computer having the newer version of your mail folders, navigate
to the corresponding directory and copy \Mozilla\ to the other computer
(if the computers are networked, this copying step is very easy, but a
flash drive works almost as well).
By this technique, you copy not only your mail folders, but also all
your other settings, including add-ons, plug-ins, etc. It's like cloning
your mail program to another computer.
Caution: results could be unexpected if you have different sets of
plugins installed on the two computers -- for example, if one machine
uses QuickTime to play certain types of video and the other doesn't have
QuickTime.
When you're satisfied that all is well on the second computer, feel free
to delete \OldMozilla\.
It would drive me bleeping crazy to hunt through dozens of folders and
thousands of messages to synch individual messages by hand.
A second technique I've used when I've only downloaded a few messages on
the fresher computer is to establish a dummy mail folder such as
"Transfer to desktop." I copy (not move) those new messages to that
folder, and then with SeaMonkey closed on the second computer, I copy
that folder to its mail directory. When I launch SM on the second
computer, the folder is there, and I can then file the new messages as
desired. I don't have to hunt for them because they're all in "Transfer
to desktop." Of course, I can later do the same thing in the other
direction because copying that folder to the other computer will
overwrite the original \Transfer to desktop\ without doing any harm,
since it contains only copies of messages already synched. But as noted
above, this technique is only practical for a very limited number of
messages easily found.
If the two machine are on a local network, it is possible to have both
machines point to a common profile on a shared network drive. However,
this does cause a very noticeable performance slowdown.
The ultimate answer for this kind of synching is to switch to IMAP
accounts, where all these folders are stored on the server, and thus
available on any computer.
Sure. But that wasn't the OP's question. He was looking for an automatic
way for the program to analyze the contents of SeaMonkey's mail folders
on two computers and make sure both had the latest copies of everything.
You know, "synch" them.
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--
Paul B. Gallagher
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