Hello fellow listmates:
Old-timers will recall that 3-5 years ago I inquired as to the best way in which to use The Bat on more than one home computer. Some suggestions were posted, but I never followed through. However, with my intention to upgrade to the current version (see separate post) I am revisiting this issue. We have a desktop and a laptop. Currently, The Bat has been accessed only via the desktop. With the establishment of a second home office in the same house I would like to also access all of our e-mail from The laptop as well. How is this best done so that mail can be downloaded by either machine without the other losing access to either old or new mail? I would also like to be able to download mail on the laptop when it is away from home, and either later merge that mail with the mail on the desktop, or, in the alternative, download the mail without deleting it from the mail server so that the desktop can also download the mail. It seems to me that there are several options: 1. Install the new version of The Bat on both the laptop AND the desktop (are two licenses needed?), but then set up the mail folder on the desktop as a shared folder so that the laptop's The Bat will point to folder on the desktop. Is this possible? When The Bat opens up on the laptop, it will automatically display the messages that are on the desktop. If messages are sent or downloaded via the Laptop, the actual message content would be stored on the desktop. Again, is this possible? Finally, when traveling, the laptop could download messages, but upon returning home, the messages would either be copied to the desktop, or the download would be done in such a way that messages would be left on the server for later downloading by the desktop. 2. Install the new version of The Bat on both the laptop AND the desktop, but also copy all mail from the desktop to the laptop so that both computers have all mail on their hard drives. Allow either machine to download e-mail, but set up some sort of automatic synchronization between the two machines. Again, is this possible? If so, how would it be done? -- Avram Sacks Chicago Using ver 1.62r on Windows XP professional sp2. ________________________________________________ Current version is 4.0.18 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
