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Thread ID: 127905	2012-11-21 01:38:00	Help with setting up multiple email accounts	NCarroll (16369)	Press F1

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1313789	2012-11-21 01:38:00	Hey, I've just run into a bit of a nightmare when it comes to setting up email accounts for family members. I'm having a bit of trouble getting my head around the best way to configure everything. Situation is: My Uncle has 4 email accounts. His personal email (@clear.net.nz), his own company email (@hisdomain.co.nz), a company he works for email (@company1.co.nz), and another company he does work for email (@company2.co.nz) I believe that one of the companies uses an exchange, so he logs in with the exchange details and can see all his folders / emails, and if they are updated on his work PC, it also updates on his home PC, Ipad, and Iphone (and vice versa). For the other 3 accounts which all need to be setup as POP, how do I get the same result. He basically wants to have his home PC with outlook setup, displaying all 4 email accounts (with separate inboxes) - and if he receives / sends / reads / deletes an email there, it updates on any other device that he can access them from. He uses his Ipad when he is out on the field, so he needs to be able to read emails on his iPad and respond to them, but have what he does on his Ipad replicate on his home PC - otherwise he would end up with having unread email that he has read show up on each different device. Sorry if it doesn't make a lot of sense, I'm rushing to get this typed up, and this is the best way I could explain it. Any ideas? Cheers, Nick	NCarroll (16369)
1313790	2012-11-21 21:01:00	The quickest fix would be to set up all accounts to automatically forward all mail to a cloud-based account, such as a gmail account or, for an Outlook-based solution that will work for the iPad, outlook.com comes up on a google search. Incoming mail could automatically be filtered into folders according to the address they were forwarded from. www.imore.com My advice would be to set up something really really simple to use that your family members can maintain themselves, rather than a more elegant solution that would involve frequent input from you.	annie (6010)
1313791	2012-11-21 22:46:00	I believe that one of the companies uses an exchange, so he logs in with the exchange details and can see all his folders / emails, and if they are updated on his work PC, it also updates on his home PC, Ipad, and Iphone (and vice versa). For the other 3 accounts which all need to be setup as POP, how do I get the same result. He basically wants to have his home PC with outlook setup, displaying all 4 email accounts (with separate inboxes) - and if he receives / sends / reads / deletes an email there, it updates on any other device that he can access them from. My advice: keep it simple. Make it complex & expect some issues. Moving/forwading all emails to the cloud will cause some issues with reply adress's. You'll need to sort that out 1st. POP a/c's dont really work like that. If he wants the (exchange like) functionality mentioned he needs to move his pop email a/c's to imap or hosted exchange. Having the same pop3 a/c on more than 1 device is do-able, but you MUST work within its limitations(dont expect all devices to sync up). Expect some complaints if you set this up. I recommend having separate profiles in Outlook. That way there is no change of accidentally mixing up the emails, or accidentally replying with the wrong email adress. This may be very important as its separate company email a/c's	1101 (13337)
1313792	2012-11-21 22:56:00	For the other 3 accounts, you might want to look at IMAP instead of POP. IMAP will give you the same result as an exchange account (Update email at home and at work).	Profix (16949)
1313793	2012-11-22 02:32:00	Continuned: That is if your service provider supports IMAP, otherwise use POP and enable "Leave messages on server"	Profix (16949)
1313794	2012-11-22 07:16:00	Imap works well but if you have loads of emails is damn so as it's always syncing, for that reason alone I went back to Pop3 on my main computer and use webmail when not at my main computer. I use POP3 on my main computer as I still prefer to have a physical copy of my emails on my own machine	gary67 (56)
1313795	2012-11-22 09:05:00	Hey guys, cheers heaps for the reply. Definitely some options to look at. Because my Uncle does a lot of field work with his profession, he needs to have the ability to check all 4 mail accounts whilst on the move - and anything he does out in the field (on his ipad) needs to show up back on his home PC so any confusion is avoided. I'm going to do a bit more research on this and consider all resolutions I have to work with. Thanks again! Nick	NCarroll (16369)
1313796	2012-11-22 10:30:00	and anything he does out in the field (on his ipad) needs to show up back on his home PC so any confusion is avoided. The only way this is going to happen is with IMAP. A basic linux server with dovecot & fetchmail to pull from the POP3 accounts would be what you want (Debian would be my pick, for ease of setup [yes, you read that right] and bulletproofness). It could even run in a VM on his home machine. OTOH Mercury is a nice light Win mail server that can run quietly as a service, but the IMAP implementation is a bit slow on large mailboxes (should be improved with the upcoming v5 release soonish).	fred_fish (15241)
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