Yahoo POP3 Email Account on multiple computers

[ChameleonDevil]

Hi

I want to get a suggestion on what I can do to do this:

I have a POP3 Yahoo!Mail account that I use for all my personal e-mails (so
that it does not come through on my work e-mail accounts).
Basically, I have 5 e-mail accounts setup at work in Outlook 2007, one of
them being my personal e-mail account.
I have 2 PST file that I configured, one for the work and then one for my
personal e-mail account only.

My problem is that I have several folders (about 15 folders) where I sort
and categorize my mail. So, what I do is that I then do a synchronise with
another 3rd party application that syncs my PST in Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook\Name.pst and one PST I store on my desktop.
After sync, I will copy that PST to my memory stick, and then copy to my
home PC.

So, then I use sync again from that PST on flash drive to PST on my home pc.
AFTER all that is done, I then launch Outlook 2003 to check my mail.
BUT then when I send & receive, Outlook 2003 wants to REDOWNLOAD ALL
messages again. About 800 of them....
So then all messages is again inside my Inbox folders - all duplicates that
is in seperate folders that I sorted.

What can I do to prevent this? Because everytime I want to sync, and copy
back between the pc's I will get duplicates because of redownloading.
I do have 'Leave a copy on message server' selected, but is there not any
other way?

I hope it was clear enough
Thanks

 

[Brian Tillman]

So, then I use sync again from that PST on flash drive to PST on my
home pc. AFTER all that is done, I then launch Outlook 2003 to check
my mail.
BUT then when I send & receive, Outlook 2003 wants to REDOWNLOAD ALL
messages again. About 800 of them....
So then all messages is again inside my Inbox folders - all
duplicates that is in seperate folders that I sorted.

What can I do to prevent this?

Each Outlook instance keeps track on its own of what messages it has
downloaded and doesn't care what's in the PST. In other words, it doesn't
compare what's in the Inbox already to what it thinks is new. It will
always download all the messages that it hasn't downloaded since the last
time it connected to the server.

One way to address it is to not leave messages on the server. Delete them
when they download. That's a setting on the Advanced tab of your account
properties. If the messages were removed from the server by one Outlook,
they won't be there for the other Outlook to try and download and since
you've already copied them to the PST that you're transporting, the second
Outlook doesn't need to download them anyway.