Shareing E-Mail Via 3 Pc's

[helterskelter]

Right i got 3 comps.

A media centre for the TV (windows 7)
Main PC (XP)
Laptop (XP)

I use thunderbird as my main email cliant

Is their a way to sync the PC's so say the main PC will download and i can view them on the other?

I know i can view with out downloading and webmail. Just trying to see what else i can to stream line things.

 

[fatheadminnow]

You can hook the computers up; like a LAN line and then you can access the other computers from one.

-FHM

 

[Darkstar]

There aren't that many options available without you either having an email server or using an external service and/or paying.
However have a look at the couple of links below, they may help to some extent:

http/www.zimbra.com/

http/www.jeremyjohnstone.com/blog/2005-09-10-easy-synchronization-of-email-between-two-machines-w-thunderbird.html

 

[helterskelter]

Think I'll just stick to view with out downloading.

I know now where and the data is stored etc etc and could possibly share this data but thunderbird is limated to collateing the data from user profile anyway.

Thanks guys

 

[voo]

I dual boot my pc and have Thunderbird setup to share the emails between computers, i guess you could do something similar if you share the correct directory.

Under Tools > Account settings, there's a path called 'Local directory'. This is where all your emails are stored. On mine, it's:
C:\Users\Tom\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\1u3s20bv.default\Mail\Local Folders

If you can share the directory and get the permissions right, then I don't see why you can't put something like
\\mainpc\c$\Users\Tom\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\1u3s20bv.default\Mail\Local Folders
as the path on the other 2 computers.

 

[helterskelter]

Thats the sort of thing i was thinking of, just not got around to it just yet.

Thnaks