Same mail inboxes on 2 pc's

jensrobot

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Hey guys
I'm having some trouble with a mail scenario. I'm not good at this stuff, i have used gmail for as long as i can remember.
The situation is this, we have one pc now which has Thunderbird with 3 pop3 accounts and a gmail. This works excellent but now we need to switch pc's sometimes.
We want a synchronized inbox, so it's the same on both pc's all the time. Is this possible?
We also have a server running 24/7 that does not do any mail handling atm., but i'm thinking that might be a possibility?
I was thinking about putting the inbox folder to a network drive for our server, but i think that will only cause trouble...
Any suggestions will be very appreciated, i'm kinda stuck here

Pc's running win10 except server is win8
 
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It is possible, its called having your pop3 email be redirected to your own (or third pary) email server that then uses imap or ms exchange.
This is not free and is for custom domains, not a yahoo or hotmail address, etc.
Both google and godaddy (as well as many others) offer this service where they handle the email of your custom domain

If this is simply for personal use then your best free option is like you said to scrape them all into gmail (you can use filters and folders to at least seperate it out)
There is no such thing as syncronization on POP3 email accounts.
POP3 was designed decades ago when the family shared THE ONE computer, at best you can tell it to keep messages on the server until deleted, this will allow all computer's to receive the emails, but it wont sync sent messages.

You will need to switch the pop3 accounts to an imap or exchange account, that is the only option for true syncronization
 

jensrobot

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Thanks for your answer!
But it must be possibre! :)
What if the server handled it all? that was the thought - to run it through there somehow. No need to set up pop3 on the clients, but let the server do that and have a shared inbox of some sorts...
Alternately - but i'd rather not do this - i could get gmail to scrape all these pop3's. That way its centralized, and then i use IMAP via gmail in thunderbird...

And yeah pop3... reminds me of the good ol' win98/2000 times
 
It is possible, its called having your pop3 email be redirected to your own (or third pary) email server that then uses imap or ms exchange.
This is not free and is for custom domains, not a yahoo or hotmail address, etc.
Both google and godaddy (as well as many others) offer this service where they handle the email of your custom domain

If this is simply for personal use then your best free option is like you said to scrape them all into gmail (you can use filters and folders to at least seperate it out)
 
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