Dean says that this question is not appropriate for PCSOFT so here I am 
in PCBUILD

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Hello,

I have recently become aware of IMAP and think that it may solve a
problem I have

I use Thunderbird on my PC and Laptop and prefer to download messages to
the 'puter for reading and action

At the moment, I use POP and at any given use one or the other systems
- never both at the same time

When I travel with my laptop I copy my PC's default profile to my laptop
- on return home, I reverse the process.  This works fairly well but in
the process of moving profiles I move settings that I do not necessarily
want on the recipient machine

I would like to get away from having to move the profile.  And thus I
come to IMAP

AS I understand IMAP it will allow me to use either computer at any
time, even simultaneously, thus allowing both my wife and I to read
email concurrently

Since gmail will be my IMAP server, I essentially will leave all of my
messages there and download complete new messages to whichever or both
of the two client machines we are using.. In the case where we both may
on be on at the same time we will have to devise a protocol so that we
would not delete messages in folders/topics of mutual interest that the
other has not read.

Am I on the right track here?  Or am I dreaming about what I can do with
IMAP?

Thanks for any input

Preston

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