Preston,
How to read email is a very personal thing.  I am quite content reading my
Gmail through the web interface, and yes I do access it from multiple
computers concurrently.  I have other accounts which I access through
Outlook on multiple machines.  I pull email on my laptop every 2 mintes, on
the desktop every 10.  I have made changes in the account setup to not
delete the email from the server when my laptop polls but it will when my
desktop does.  That way I have a local copy of the email on both machines.
I could also set options to delete the email when it is deleted from the
recycle bin.  I'm sure that Thunderbird has the same options.

Just some other ideas for you.
Ron


On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Betti Ann and Preston Smith <
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> Dean says that this question is not appropriate for PCSOFT so here I am in
> PCBUILD
>
> ps
>
> 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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