SillyDog701

[allen-uk]

Just shows how little I really know....


I'm running Outlook express on my G3, OS8.6 No problems. Using ntl as ISP, they supply several email addresses with the deal, again no problems.

So, setting up my iMac, OS10.4.7. Can't use Outlook Express, as the spiteful Microsoft doesn't make a version for OSX/Intel.

Using Netscape 7.2., downloaded from here.

Okay ish.

My questions.

If I've set up my email addresses (same ones as I had on G3) in Netscape, do I need to delete them at all in Outlook Ex on the G3? What happens when an incoming email can go to two different places? Does it just go to my old location, G3, AND my new one, on the iMac?

Tried sending test messages across the system, and some get through, some don't. Is this why Antony (in a reply to another topic) tried to steer me clear of Netscape mail? Now I COULD set up new email addresses through ntl, fairly easily done, but I'd rather not, as so many people have been using the original ones for years.

Or am I missing something obvious? (Marbles excluded).

Allen.

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[Antony]

If I've set up my email addresses (same ones as I had on G3) in Netscape, do I need to delete them at all in Outlook Ex on the G3? What happens when an incoming email can go to two different places? Does it just go to my old location, G3, AND my new one, on the iMac?

Assuming your email is POP3 type, and if you leave messages on server (say for 7 days), both machines would have the chance to pick the same emails up. (If you check emails from both Macs frequently.)

However, if you do not leave messages on sever, if the mail is downloaded to your G3, it won't be available for iMac.

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[PaulD]

Antony is quite correct. Consider this analogy.
Let's say that you have arranged for several postal boxes, obviously each with its own number. You and your wife each has keys. When one of you goes to a box, s/he has a choice: a) remove the mail, b) read the mail, but not remove it. Note that incoming mail isn't 'delivered' - doesn't go anyplace - until someone actually opens the box, it is just waiting for someone to remove it.

If the mail is removed, then another visit will find the box empty.
It the mail is only read, but not removed, then it is still available for another visit to the box, by whomever.

Mapping the analogy: postal box = mail account; person = email client (Outlook Express, Netscape, ...). The underlying system - hardware and OS - are irrelevant.

(In fact, this is what my wife and I have set up on our two computers. For the email address which we both use, on her Thunderbird she has checked 'Leave messages on server'. So if she reads in a message first, it is still there for me to pick up later (I don't 'leave messages on server'). If I've gotten a message that is for her, I'll ask if she has seen it yet; if she hasn't, she has to look at it on 'my' system. (If one of us has actually read in ('removed') a message that the other 'must have', there are two methods that can be used to get it onto the other system; details upon request.) We used this technique earlier, on one computer, during our test and transition from NS to TB. We have POP3 accounts; I can't speak to IMAP handling.)

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[allen-uk]

Thanks Paul, Antony.

As it happened, my luck was in on this one.

My (defunct) Outlook Express required a manual 'Get Mail' command.

The Netscape system allows an option of downloading mail as soon as the system is switched on, with no need for a manual 'get mail'.

So, all my mail comes only to Netscape, just as I wanted.

Thanks for the help.


Allen.

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