Rolf wrote:
> The following is technically the magic I would like you to explain.... 
> how do you duplicate the mail on both your machines and still remove the 
> mail from the POP3 server(s). At some point your POP3 accounts will 
> reach their size limit, and you will have to purge them....
>
> ... unless you are deleting them from the POP server when you retrieve 
> them (which is the 'normal'/'default' setting for POP3), but, if that 
> were the case, you could not be duplicating the mails to both machines.
>
> I have an information gap on your setup.
>
>   
Yes. you are 100% correct.  I did say I was leaving out a step of 
explanation.

Obviously I put a copy of all emails (from all public POP3 servers) 
somewhere after my server downloading once & deleting the email on the 
24 or so accounts. (Not all are public ISP, some are my own hosted mail 
servers).

The laptop doesn't do POP3 with my own server, but with the unpublished 
mailbox that a copy of everything is forwarded to. I considered IMAP, 
but synchronisation can be an issue if you want an offline line copy of 
everything.  And there is the Server backup issues..

I could change to IMAP, as I now usually use a VPN mapped to port 80 by 
my router/firewall, so that when out & about the laptops can use port 80 
(unlikely to be blocked at Internet Cafes, Colleges and Hotels etc!) and 
then do all email encrypted and all sending of email via my home ISP.  
Hot spots are very insecure for email and also you may find no SMTP, or 
no-one that can tell you what the SMTP is (most ISPs now block SMTP that 
is not an access on their own subnets.)  But I yet to be convinced that 
IMAP simply doesn't swap one set of problems for a different set.


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