synchronizing Thunderbird between two computers

[wj...@sover.net]

Using a desktop at work and a laptop at home, Thunderbird on both with a
lot of extensions added.
I'm running Thunderbird under WinXP Pro on both machines.
It's becoming a pain to copy emails onto disks or transfer them from one
computer to the next, depending on where I download / open the email. I
get too many per day to leave on the ISPs server and retrieve onto both
machines. Tried that already.

Is there an extension or some type of functionality that allows me to
synchronize both installations of Thunderbird on both machines?
That way, I would just have to bring the laptop to the desktop, do a
sync and everything is the same on both machines? I remember (vaguely
<g>) being able to do that in Outlook. I've looked through the extension
list as bit already, but nothing jumped out at me as a solution.

Anyone?
TIA,
Wayne Seidl

[Nir]

wj...@sover.net said the following On 01/03/2008 07:02 PM:

Wayne , if you have any USB drive then the best solution in my view is
to use Portable Thunderbird [1]. It will save you from doing
synchronizing mails periodically .

Btw, you should see this help page [2] , basically 2nd suggestion [3]
suites yours requirement .

[1] "http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/thunderbird_portable"
[2]
"http://kb.mozillazine.org/Synchronizing_mail_on_two_computers_(Thunderbird)"
[3] "http://synchingthunder.sourceforge.net/"

[wj...@sover.net]

Thank you Nir. I am looking forward to getting in to this. Nice to
have a direction in which to travel. Much appreciated.

[AGB]

I have a similar Synching need (something like Foxmarks, but for T'Bird
Mail.....), and I presently address it by simply copying the mail
account folders from one machine to another. This is a tad painful, but
at least I have it neatly set up - using Windows Home Networking, I
simply have a pair of desktop shortcut icons on each machine, pointing
directly to the Mail folder on the "local" machine, and the Mail folder
on the "remote machine". Open both shortcuts, place the reduced screens
alongside each other, and do the transfer using Windows Explorer's cut /
paste / copy / move functions. Not too bad.

But note that this solution has the same problem as the SynchingThunder
program mentioned: it doesn't truly *synch* the Mail, it simply
replaces one set of mail with another. So you need to be very aware,
before you "synch", of which is your "up to date" Mail folder, for you
are going to end up with two identical copies of that, not an
amalgamation of Mail A and Mail B. Indeed in my MAIL folders, there are
all the folders for the individual accounts (plus the T'Bird LOCAL
FOLDER) *and* a folder called TRANSFER ARCHIVE. Before I "synch" I
always copy my destination mail folders (ie, the ones I am about to
replace with the folders from the other machine) into that folder. So,
if I suddenly go "Argggh, I've just overwritten vital mail by mistake),
I can always retrieve the situation.

This solution sounds, and is, a tad long-winded, and I wouldn't want to
be doing it every day. But my situation really only requires a "synch"
once a week, and I've got it down to a 2 or 3 minute process.

The T'Bird Portable (on USB) is not a bad solution either. But, when I
tried it, I got nervous that all my mail was sitting on a tiny little
USB, too easy to lose..... I have on both my laptop and desktop a lot
of auto back-up software (backing up to both local external drives and,
via the web, to a remote server), but that software is much happier
backing up from the internal HDDs than from a dangling USB.

AGB

[Alan]

http://www.jeremyjohnstone.com/blog/archives/2005/09/10/easy-synchronization-of-email-between-two-machines-w-thunderbird/

OR

http://tinyurl.com/p5q6o

[Ron Hunter]

Have you thought of using portable TB and a large 'jumpdrive'?

--
Ron Hunter rphu...@charter.net

[JuanSinMiedo]

You can try any program that sync files on both computers. It would be a
matter of syncing both profiles everytime both computers are together.
Sorry I don't remember any names now.

Other solution would be to use an email provider that supports IMAP (ej.
Gmail). That way mails would be always in sync just by connecting to the
provider.

Good luck.

wj...@sover.net escribió:

[LHenry]

Thus, this is what I do - I've GMAIL and I use the IMAP; very
convienient. Plus I use SyncSW; works perfect.

_______________________
Later,
LHenry
Thunderbird 2.0.0.9/WindowsXP

[Bucky]

There is one good one that I have just been using for about four days
and it is totally automatic. It is available at: ScheduleWord.com. I
have looked for a long time for something that I can use between my XP
laptop and Vista desktop. I feel I have finally found the answer with
this one. You can use it manually or auto. Hope this helps.

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