Reading your mail on 2 locations while leaving mail on server problem..

[thaG]

Hello all,

We have the following problem.

We read mail on 2 locations.

Location 1 = work
Location 2 = home
The client software is/are using the "leave mail on server"
The clients used: the Bat, outlook, thunderbird and eudora

When downloading the mail using the client it download's all mail that is new.
so when you download your mail on location 1 the mail cannot be downloaded again on location 2 (exept for new mail... all the old mail downloaded befor on location 1 cannot be downloaded again.).

has anyone got an id how to fix this?

Thanks in advance !

 

[kke]

First: check via webmail that email not deleted by pop3 client program.

Try to use difference mailserver for each location

eg:
location1: mail.domain.com
location2: www.domain.com (or any subdomain point to same ip as mail.)
location3: ip

My server is converted to Dovecot and have no problem with this issue.
I leave it on server and load from 3 difference loaction.
(1 main location wil delete mail older than 5 days)

Hope this help.

 

[thaG]

First: check via webmail that email not deleted by pop3 client program.

Try to use difference mailserver for each location

eg:
location1: mail.domain.com
location2: www.domain.com (or any subdomain point to same ip as mail.)
location3: ip

My server is converted to Dovecot and have no problem with this issue.
I leave it on server and load from 3 difference loaction.
(1 main location wil delete mail older than 5 days)

Hope this help.

thanks going to try this, the mail (as far as i can see) isn't deleted on webmail. going to try the mailserver hint and check back later.


rb

 

[floyd]

I would suggest having the mail delivered to different mailboxes. Then you don't have to worry about old and new for the different locations.

 

[thaG]

I would suggest having the mail delivered to different mailboxes. Then you don't have to worry about old and new for the different locations.

Its one mailbox thats opened from 2 different locations using email clients like outlook.
So i don't think 2 / more different mailboxes is a solution for our problem.

thanks for the advice and reply tho!

 

[floyd]

Instead of one mailbox being opened from two locations have each location have its own mailbox. Have the same mail delivered to both mailboxes.

Example: Maybe you have email being delivered to [email protected]. Create [email protected] and [email protected]. Send mail for [email protected] to both [email protected] and [email protected]. The email client at home will check [email protected] and the office email client will check [email protected].

It is a solution. It may be one you don't like or understand.

 

[thaG]

It may be one you don't like or understand.

It was the last one sorry about that.

Seems like the one mentioned by kke seems to do the trick, but one of my clients cannot use RDP to connect to his home system to test. on 2 other clients it worked fine.

I do think this solution is nicer tho.
Ill try / test it and post if it works.

thanks for the reply's !

 

[floyd]

Try to use difference mailserver for each location

eg:
location1: mail.domain.com
location2: www.domain.com (or any subdomain point to same ip as mail.)
location3: ip

I don't see how this would make a different since the server does not see the mail server name. The two are only connecting by ip address. The mail server doesn't know if the client has mail.domain.com or www.domain.com or the ip address for the mail server name.

 

[thaG]

I don't see how this would make a different since the server does not see the mail server name. The two are only connecting by ip address. The mail server doesn't know if the client has mail.domain.com or www.domain.com or the ip address for the mail server name.

Well i think that the mail on the server is flagged as read by client using mail.domain.tld when downloading it with a client from location 1.

this way it thinks that location 2 is the same user as location one. when pullin in the mail using another mailserver (in this case www.domain.tld and in our case mail2.domain.tld) it thinks that the mail is for another user that diddn't downloaded it befor.

this is the only explenation i can give @ this moment.

thats why i do think that your solution is much better altho it uses more diskspace.