Outlook Express

[cx]

JC, my man. I know you wouldn't stoop so low as to use Outlook Express, but it's all some of us got for email.

Now, me, I have a desktop confuser which I use most of the time, and a laptop which I use some of the time, specially when I'm out inna boonies and hafta hook it up to the ol' cell phone.

Problem: Ain't nobody, not NOBODY, been able to tell me how to transfer email messages from one to the other in any meaningful way. Seller of desktop 'splained me how to export ALL email and import it to the other machine (which thing I have already forgot), but what you get is dupes of everything, every time you do that - like you maybe end up with the same message three or four times and the only way to get rid of the extra is to go through all the folders and delete every damn one of the suckers. This may amount to hundreds before you find out what you've done.

Question: You know a way to pass them back and forth without duplication, just like other types of files?

Many, many beers could be yours for a correct response.

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[JC]

I am not sure what you mean...hold on i'm thinking...ah still not qiute sure...be right back..

[JC]

Ok I think I am following you...not sure but..

There are a few ways to do what yopu want to do...but.

Before I go into them what I would suggest is for you to just open up a free Internet mail account and use that.(ie. hotmail.com or one of the many others)

You will always have access to your mail from anywhere.

Your mail folders will never change or need to be moved around.

It is much more secure than getting mail delivered to your pc(virus wise).

As a side note the FBI is now monitoring the big companies like Hotmail(and many big ISP also) useing their 'carnivore' software so I would scout out another non-microsoft company personally.

If for some reason you still desire to use your ISP mail account rather than a internet based one let me know we will go over a few options. But all the other options would still be more extra steps than a internet based account.

[JC]

Heres a neat one that even has a remailer also.

That is something that will auto matically forward your mail to anywhere you want it..lotsa possiblities with that.

[aeronutt]

You could just set the option on both computers to "leave a copy of messages on server" so that when you dial in with either computer it downloads whatever messages that particular computer hasn't received yet. In outlook express, the click sequence is Tools, Accounts, Properties, Advanced. The option is the last check box on that form.

This solution eliminates any attempt at making your two computers communicate with each other. They only talk to the mail server and download the messages that have not been downloaded previously.

Ron

[cx]

JC, et al:

Don't want another email address I think.

Also don't want my files available only online because when I spend months in the wilderness with only the cellphone/laptop rig for email, it is not feasible to go online for long periods due to cost and tenuousness of connectivity. Quick connect when possible, download, get off; quick reconnect if possible, upload, get off. Drive back down the mountain to camp.

I already do the "leave a copy" thingee with the laptop, but that takes care of only inbound messages, not outgoing. Also, it is sometimes weeks or even months before the desktop goes online and I don't know how long the messages will remain at the server.

But mostly it just pisses me off that I can't just transfer the damn files from one machine to the other like I can do with EVERY other thing in the computer. Like when I cable my cell phone to the laptop and tell them both to make sure they have the same phone numbers listed, no matter on which one I have made changes. Works like a charm. Word files, just put them on a floppy and take them from one to the other. Works like a charm.

So, what the hell's the deal with email?!!!

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!

[JC]

save it to a floppy?

jaz drive?

zip drive?

not following you.

I believe you can leave the data on the server for awile as long as it does not get too big, but every Isp is differant and some don't even give you the option.

[cx]

For Word files, I usually just use a 3.5 inch diskette. For bigger stuff, like topo maps (IT3 file?), I use ZIP drive or CD. Those don't usually ever go on the laptop, generally from one desktop to another.

We have very hi-tech remote camps. :D

[Rob Z]

Kelly

You sure you have time to count owls out there with all that computer equipment in camp?

Z

[cx]

Oh, yeah, we always try to set aside a little time for that, Rob.

Tell you how bad it was last season. In our first camp we were five humanoids. Amongst us we had:

Two motorhomes and one towable RV.
Five additional vehicles, three of which are 4wd.
Two gasoline powered electrical generators.
Three computers - Two desktops and a laptop.
Two color printers.
One color copy machine.
Five cell phones, one of which could be wired to the laptop.
Five portable GPS units (first year we've tried those).
Seven portable communication radios.
More flashlights and AA batteries than God. Wellll, a lot anyway.

Then, of course there is all the backpacking and camping gear for the really remote, remote camps.

And boots, lots of good boots for them 12 to 14 mile nights (which are not the norm, but there are lots of them).

But you gotta remember, the nearest Walmart is 61 miles away, only 50 of which are even paved; nearest pay phone is ten miles.

Then, when we finish up down there (near Carlsbad, NM) we go north to the mountains for the hard parts. :D

[Rob Z]

Now Kelly, you actually had me thinking that you were roughing it on these outdoor excursions. Except for the lack of retail, it sounds like you are living better out in the woods than at home!

Can I come on the next trip?

Z

[Bud Cline]

I too have always enjoyed camping........
........right under the star of the Holiday Inn sign.

Roughing it for me is a room that isn't near the restaurant or the pool, now that really sucks.

Last weekend we stayed at an Executive Suites Hotel in Omaha. We were attending an awards banquet sponsored by the company my wife works for. During the festivities she won a new air hockey table. It cost me $30 to have the bellman disassemble the table, get our van out of valet parking, load the table in the van, return the van to valet parking, and deliver the valet receipt to our room. Life is hard sometimes.

I broke my rule of "limit of two beers" and drank Heineken's for six hours that saturday night. Free of course. Well almost, I did pay $10 to have the bartender submerge my bottles in ice throughout the evening for me because their beer coolers were set for 45 degrees (the recommended temp) an that is just too warm for good beer. The shrimp and caviar and rumakis were great.

Sunday morning we attended a champagne and omelette breakfast. Free of course. It's just a good thing they were serving omelettes 'cause I wouldn't have made it if those damned eggs had been looking back at me that early in the morning. Just a slight overhang you know. Must of been the beer was too cold the night before.

Anyway....that's my idea of camping. And didn't need no damn GPS either, all I had to do was dial "0" to find out where I was. A bellman carried our "gear" to our room, a bellman carried our "gear" from our room. I did push the button on the glass elevator a few times but I may have that done for me next time.

200 in attendance....cost was a measly $71,000.00.

A good time was had by all.

[cx]

Well, then, I guess there's no sense axing you to come out to help guide any Ibex hunts for us, eh, Bud?

The terrain's a little rougher, but we do most of it in the daylight. That make it better?

[Bud Cline]

I have hiking boots. I don't know why.

[Rob Z]

Bud

What's a "rumaki"?

Rob

[Bud Cline]

Rumaki: chicken liver & water chestnut wrapped in bacon and fried. M-m-m-m-m-m.

[Sonnie Layne]

cx,

Something you can do in Oulook... highlight the email, click on File, Save As, select a location of your choosing. Then you can open it with notepad or many other windows apps.

Would this help you out?

Sonnie

[flatfloor]

I have hiking boots too, use em for throwing at Ibex, that is if I can coax one into the back yard. Cathills are covered with them things, leapin and jumpin all over the damn place.

Jeez! this thread has deteriorated since last I looked.

[cx]

Sonnie:

I think I understand what you're saying, but no, I don't think that would help.

Even if I could transfer files from one computer to the other that way, they wouldn't be in the correct format to use in OE. Besides, it's several steps for each message, which could be a large pain in itself.

Still can't believe there's not a simple way to do that transfer, just like you can with every other kind of file.

Don't make no sense!

flatfloor:

Now I know we done caught your wretched ass in a lie!

Ain't no Ibex inna Cathills on accounta the Cathills would be consider smooooooth as a table top to an Ibex.

The leapin' and jumpin' part you got right though. :D

How's your quittin' goin'?

[Sonnie Layne]

I know you said you didn't want another email addy, but no one need ever know it's there if you signed up for a freebie on, say yahoo.com (by the way, they now let you forward your mail to another server). Uhh, scuse me. If you do that, you could forward all your pertinent mail to that "unknown" address, then access it from either puter from anywhere. It would be kinda like a holding box for ya.

[flatfloor]

Kelly, didn't you ever hear of the Lost Tribe of Ibex?
They got ino the Catskills as a result of a shipwreck of a load of them that were being transported to the Houston area. At least that's what our guide, Irving, said. It's a wonderful sight watching them gambol and frolick.

Kelly, based on the above post how do you think the smoking is going?