Help syncing Outlook on laptop & desktop

[klocklin]

I am trying to set up Outlook 2003 on my Acer laptop (Vista) and my HP desktop (XP) so I canwork from either machine interchangeably. Have gotten Outlook to run on both machines, but messages downloaded to laptop when it is running are not also downloaded to desktop when it is launched later, so I have 2 parallel sets of messages in Inbox. How can I modify settings in Outlook so that messages downloaded to laptop are still avaialble (i.e., will down load on opening) when Outlook on desktop is powered up? Don't mind deleting files twice (once on each machine), but the current parallel system is not workable. Thnaks!

[mas0n]

What you want to do is have both machines leave a copy of the message on the server when they send/receive so that the messages are still available for each other.

Tools > Email Accounts... > View or Change existing e-mail accounts > Change > More Settings... > Advanced

Check the box next to "Leave a copy of messages on the server"

Check the box next to "Remove from server after XX days"

Adjust the number of days according to how much space your account has and what volume of mail you deal with. The last thing you want to do is have the account fill up on the server and have all mail come to a halt.

You must ajdust these settings on both PCs.

[kryyst]

What mason said is true. However not all ISP's will allow you to leave a copy of the message on the server and they will just delete it as soon as you pop into it.

What I would suggest is setting up a gmail account. Have gmail pull in all your messages from your ISP first and then have your two outlook programs use IMAP to connect to Gmail and then they will always be in sync.

[klocklin]

What you want to do is have both machines leave a copy of the message on the server when they send/receive so that the messages are still available for each other.

Tools > Email Accounts... > View or Change existing e-mail accounts > Change > More Settings... > Advanced

Check the box next to "Leave a copy of messages on the server"

Check the box next to "Remove from server after XX days"

Adjust the number of days according to how much space your account has and what volume of mail you deal with. The last thing you want to do is have the account fill up on the server and have all mail come to a halt.

You must ajdust these settings on both PCs.

[klocklin]

terrific...just what I needed. Thanks!

Ken

[mas0n]

terrific...just what I needed. Thanks!

Ken

Glad we could help and welcome to Icrontic! :cheers: