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Using 1 email account on 2 computers
If you have 2 computers, say a desktop and a laptop, you probably want to use one email account on both machines, and have your incoming mail on each one. Here’s a little background, and how to do it.Email is not physical like postal mail. It’s just electronic data. The sender’s email program sends a copy of his or her message to your account on your server. The mail server holds that copy until your email program logs in and retrieves a copy of it. By default, then your email program tells the server to delete its copy of the message. After that, the email program on your other computer can’t get a copy of it.
However, you can configure both of your email programs to leave the message on the server for a period of time. In Outlook Express, it’s under Tools/Accounts/(choose your account)/Properties/Advanced and then, under Delivery, check the box next to “Leave a copy of messages on server”. Then click next to “Remove from server after” and select an appropriate number of days in the box, and/or click “Remove from server when deleted from “Deleted Items”. Do the same on both computers.
The key is in picking an appropriate number of days to keep your email on both computers synced, but not so long that your mailbox fills up.
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