2 Outlooks 1 POP3 email

[Phil]

Morning all,
I have a question regarding a POP3 email and 2 outlooks.

I would like to know if it is possible to received email to both outlooks?

I have a blueyonder account - I dont not wish to login to the webmail i only want to use outlook, in the past i managed to set this up but once i receive an email on one outlook, i go to open the other and nothing appears...

Could anyone give me some advice on what i might be doing wrong or is it possible to do this?

Rgds

 

[Raj]

Hi Phil,
You have to make some changes in your outlook for your pop e-mail to appear
in both the computers.
Please follow these steps,

Outlook>Tools>options>e-mail account>view or change e-mail account.
click on the e-mail account to modify its properties.
more settings>click on advanced tab
click on save e-mails in server ( something like that), its the last option.

I hope you are working outlook 2003.

This setting will save a copy of message in your web account server as well,
so even though outlook downloads e-mails in one computer, it still saves the
e-mail in the web mail, so when you view the e-mail in any other computer,
outlook will again download the e-mails.

 

[Phil]

Many thanks for your reply.

I just found out my ISP supports IMAP - would this be better?

Say if one client is using POP3 and the other is using IMAP - could I have issues with this?

Thanks
Phil

 

[Brian Tillman]

Many thanks for your reply.

I just found out my ISP supports IMAP - would this be better?

Perhaps. I find Outlook's IMAP transport to be less than robust, but it
should work.

Say if one client is using POP3 and the other is using IMAP - could I
have issues with this?

Not if the POP account is configured to leave messages on the server so they
are there for the IMAP account to read.

 

[VanguardLH]

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I just found out my ISP supports IMAP - would this be better?
Say if one client is using POP3 and the other is using IMAP - could I h...

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The account type defined in the e-mail client should match the account
type to which the e-mail client connects. Even if the e-mail provider
allows multiple protocols to get at messages in your mailbox, just pick
one. You could use POP access if you configured your e-mail client to
"leaves messages on server". However, the POP client will only see the
Inbox while the IMAP client will see all folders on the server.

With IMAP, you will see all folders on the server. With POP, you only
see the Inbox (because POP doesn't understand folders and only knows
about a mailbox which will be the Inbox). For info on how POP and IMAP
work, read:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_office_protocol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imap

When setting up the IMAP account, be careful regarding some e-mail
clients. Not all will default to the root folder and you end up showing
multiple same-named folders or a hierarchy that doesn't quite match up
with what is on the server. The IMAP account config has a tab where you
can specify the root folder if the e-mail client doesn't automatically
use it. I've run across this problem when using OL2002 against Gmail
configured to provide IMAP access.

 

[Pat Willener]

IMAP is exactly what you want. On all accounts, of course.