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Old April 12th 06, 08:42 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook
Brian Tillman
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Default Copying PST file resets unseen-message info

Norman wrote:

Keeping them synced might get a bit trickier. That is collecting data
such as sent on one machine but not the other or journaling or other
functions possibly seems trickier. I haven't dug deeply but I haven't
seen where my ISP has a sent folder for items I send unless I do it
with html online and maybe choose to do it from there.


And that's not too hard to understand. SMTP (and POP, for that matter) has
no concept of folders. If there is a Sent Items folder, it is strictly a
client construct. If you're using a web interface to an ISP, then the web
server that accesses your mailbox is performing client duties and it may
provide for a Sent Items folder on the ISP's server, but the SMTP and POP
processes have no way of knowing about it.

And still it
may only exist on the server unless I choose to send a copy to myself.
And so it might work in some fashion to send a copy to self of
everything from outlook. But then inbox might start to look a mess
without some sort of filtering.

What would you suggest for keeping the master pst fully synced?


Well, the method I described in my prior post would do that if you're
disciplined and make sure you use the same PST from each machine by copying
it back and forth and going through the process of adding into Outlook
properly. However, that's tedious and one of the commercial sync tools at
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/sync.htm may be a better approach.
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Brian Tillman

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