Hi
On Friday 7 February 2014 at 6:44:35 AM, in <mid:1810590071.20140207004...@gmail.com>, Achdut18 wrote: > Hello Tbudl, > I have recently expanded my home network to include > three computers. Previously, it had one desktop and > one laptop. I have added a new laptop, and now want to > use the desktop for no other purpose than as a > dedicated "mail server" so that regardless of which > laptop is on site, the other laptop will be able > to download and see mail. (When offsite, either > laptop can use webmail to see the mail.) The Bat! used to have a "server mode" where one machine had TB! acting as an exchange server and the others in the local network were installed as clients. Alas, this was discontinued a few years ago. I would think about pointing the Laptop copies of The Bat! to the account settings and mail folder on the desktop PC rather than each having it own copy. But only if all run the same The Bat! version and preferably only one will be used at a time to run The Bat! > However, as I > explain below, I see some problems. > The primary installation of The Bat is on the desktop. > In July 2010, when the first laptop was acquired, I > asked how to set up The Bat so that both computers > could see the same files. It was suggested I create a > backup of The Bat on the desktop. Then use the .msi > file from the desktop to setup The Bat on the laptop, > but then, instead of creating an account, restore, > using the backup. > I did that. However, I notice that new mail folders > and sorting rules subsequently created on the desktop > are not seen on the laptop. Why is that? You cloned your installation of The Bat! as it was at the time, so that you had two identical copies of the message base and account settings that were not linked together. Changes would not be carried across to the other copy unless you kept them synchronised, an example of which Jack has already suggested. > Before > setting up The Bat on the second laptop, can > someone explain to me how I can set up The Bat on our > little home network so that any folder or rule > created on one laptop, will be seen on the other > laptop? And, I need to use the desktop as the "server", > so that when either laptop is offsite, the other laptop > will still have access to the mail. If only one of the three machines will run The Bat! at a time, and if all three are the same version, I would designate the mail folder on the desktop PC where TB! stores all the messages and settings as a shared resource (or map its location as a network drive) and point all three The Bat! installations to the same files. > This scheme is designed to mimic IMAP without using > IMAP. I have tried, unsuccessfully to set up IMAP. > Other than this one, annoying glitch, my current scheme > seems to work ok. (Well, there is a second glitch > in that if any mail is downloaded on one laptop, it > will not appear on the second laptop (if the laptop > is turned on), until downloaded on the second laptop. What about if it is downloaded on the desktop PC? This could be scheduled (in Windows scheduler) to periodically open TB!, check mail, and (if wanted) exit TB!. > However, the mail will then appear in duplicate in > all of my non-gmail accounts. Are you already pointing The Bat! on the first laptop to the messagebase on the desktop? If so, shouldn't the message appear when the folder is refreshed? And if you are not sharing a messagebase, I can't work out the messages would duplicate I suspect gmail ignores any settings to the contrary and deletes the message after first download. (Based on my setting to keep emails on server for several days after download, which is honoured by all except gmail.) > Running "delete > duplicates" every once in a while gets rid of the > duplicates without a whole lot of effort on my part!) This could also be automated in Windows Scheduler so that it takes no effort at all. See The Bat! help file, under "advanced use." > If it makes any difference, both laptops run > Windows 7 Pro, while the desktop runs Win XP Pro. I'm not sure that it matters. -- Best regards MFPA mailto:2014-667rhzu3dc-lists-gro...@riseup.net Free advice costs nothing until you act upon it Using The Bat! v4.0.38 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 3 ________________________________________________ Current version is 6.1.8 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
