Managing Outlook on two computers with a single account

[Mazhar]

Well I use Outlook 2010 in my office, now I need the same Outlook in my home computer to work at home. Now in Office I have my email account set in POP, it means emails that I have downloaded in my office, will not be downloaded at home. This is what the issue is, now I want exactly same emails and outlook settings at home, so what do I do now? Is there any solution.

 

Thanks !

[grunger106]

You can tick the box that leaves a copy on the server, but this will only give you the same inbound mail on each machine, not sent mail

Or you buy a hosted exchange account (around ?4 p/m) that will allow you to have as many devices you like point at the same mailbox.

[Shiranui]

IMAP

[Mazhar]

IMAP

 

Would you please clarify sir? You mean to say I setup my home account in IMAP because I have to keep POP in office, I cant change that.

[Shiranui]

In that case, as grunger106 said, you can have a synced inbox, but your sent emails won't be synced. 

 

Would you please clarify sir? You mean to say I setup my home account in IMAP because I have to keep POP in office, I cant change that.

[Xahid]

Would you please clarify sir? You mean to say I setup my home account in IMAP because I have to keep POP in office, I cant change that.

Well, you have to change that if you want both places synced, POP is made for one location. IMAP is your solution, but you have to reconfigure your account.

[Mazhar]

What if I set up IMAP at home and POP in office, will I get all the emails then at home Outlook?

[Xahid]

What if I set up IMAP at home and POP in office, will I get all the emails then at home Outlook?

You know pop will fetch the emails from server unless you have ticked the option where it says "leave a message on server" & that will increase the size of your inbox at the server, if size doesn't matter, then go with it.

[Mazhar]

Well yes I have "Leave the message on server" ticked in my account settings in Outlook. And how come it will increase the storage at the server? For example if I have a gmail account.

[Xahid]

Well yes I have "Leave the message on server" ticked in my account settings in Outlook. And how come it will increase the storage at the server? For example if I have a gmail account.

Usually the corporate account has limited storage capacity, pop means move the mail from the server to your outlook client, but when you tick on "leave a copy on server" it will copy the message to your outlook client hinced inbox size will keep growing as you keep receiving emails. but in case of gmail of course you have very good ibox capacity,

[Nashy]

I second IMAP.