How would I do this?

original poster · Feb 26, 2013, 03:27 AM

Hi all,

I bought a late 2012 27" iMac, 2013 Retina MacBook Pro and a 2TB Time Capsule last week to use for work (work from home).

I want work emails (POP) to sync on all my devices so when I mark an email as read on the iMac, it appears the same on the laptop and when I send an email on my laptop, it shows up in the sent items of my iMac.

How would I do this?

tom vilsack · Feb 26, 2013, 04:19 AM

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3228

original poster · Feb 26, 2013, 04:37 AM

No that hasn't done what I wanted unfortunately.

J. Rab · Feb 26, 2013, 04:40 AM

Could you set your POP email as an IMAP connection instead? I've done so in the past where a server is a POP3 but somehow fiddling with the settings managed to do a synced deletion / mail read.

original poster · Feb 26, 2013, 05:14 AM

When I tried setting it up as imap it just crashed the emails!

smoking monkey · Feb 26, 2013, 05:31 AM

I use a laptop at work and a desktop at home and my main email is my ISP email. It appears on both computers as unread which as you say is a PITA and can get confusing, but the good part is that it shows sent messages on both machines no matter which computer I use to send an email.

I didn't do anything special to set it up. I just assumed that was more to to with the ISP than anything I did.

Weaselboy · Feb 26, 2013, 07:58 AM

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Originally Posted by original poster

Hi all,

I bought a late 2012 27" iMac, 2013 Retina MacBook Pro and a 2TB Time Capsule last week to use for work (work from home).

I want work emails (POP) to sync on all my devices so when I mark an email as read on the iMac, it appears the same on the laptop and when I send an email on my laptop, it shows up in the sent items of my iMac.

How would I do this?

With a standard POP3 setup in Mail, when you DL a new Mail it will be gone from the server as new, so won't be downloaded again on the second device... so you are okay there. But POP is not going to keep sent items synced like you want. It will only keep the sent item on the machine that sent it.

To get what you want you really need to move to an IMAP based Mail setup. IMAP keeps everything on the server and all clients are synced (all folders) to match what is on the server. Much much better for what you are doing.

Can you forward your POP account to maybe GMail and use GMail's IMAP? That would work.

original poster · Feb 26, 2013, 08:00 AM

Yeah I spoke to the hosting company this morning and they said switch to IMAP which I've done although it's causing no end of trouble, very frustrating!

Tombs · Feb 26, 2013, 09:06 AM

I'm keen to se how you get round this, I have the same setup as you. Imac (on its way), iphone and 13 mbp pro and at the moment using outlook along with business contact manager but as you know its only on one machine. The only solution I could find was a cloud based setup such as Office 365.

flynz4 · Feb 26, 2013, 12:40 PM

You need to use IMAP email. If your current ISP cannot provide that... switch to a new email account that does. Then setup IMAP email on each of your computers.

Then forward all of your current email to your new email address. Everything will then come in on your new IMAP email... and do exactly what you want.

/Jim

boy-better-know · Feb 26, 2013, 03:10 PM

I have never worked out how to do this with my hotmail account without flaws. My G-mail account does it perfectly though. That is between an iMac, MBP, iPhone and iPad.

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original poster macrumors member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Berkshire, UK	How would I do this? Hi all, I bought a late 2012 27" iMac, 2013 Retina MacBook Pro and a 2TB Time Capsule last week to use for work (work from home). I want work emails (POP) to sync on all my devices so when I mark an email as read on the iMac, it appears the same on the laptop and when I send an email on my laptop, it shows up in the sent items of my iMac. How would I do this?
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smoking monkey macrumors 6502a Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Japan	I use a laptop at work and a desktop at home and my main email is my ISP email. It appears on both computers as unread which as you say is a PITA and can get confusing, but the good part is that it shows sent messages on both machines no matter which computer I use to send an email. I didn't do anything special to set it up. I just assumed that was more to to with the ISP than anything I did. __________________ PowerMac G3 450 B&W, K-Lime iBook G3/466SE, PB G4 867(Ti), G4 800 DP(Quicksilver), PB G4 1.5 17" (Al), IpodT 1G, 08 24" iMac, MBP 09 17", iP3GS, iPad1, iPad2, iP4S, '12 27" iMac.
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Tombs macrumors regular Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Sutton, Surrey England	I'm keen to se how you get round this, I have the same setup as you. Imac (on its way), iphone and 13 mbp pro and at the moment using outlook along with business contact manager but as you know its only on one machine. The only solution I could find was a cloud based setup such as Office 365. __________________ i7 27" 12gb ram, 2TB harddrive.,iphone 4,ATV,1tb Time Machine.2 x Sony VAIO's,1 xGames PC,Intel Core 2 Extreme x6800 2.93GHz,EVGA GTX570HD, 128gb SSD, 2012 MBP 13"
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Feb 26, 2013, 04:19 AM	#2
tom vilsack macrumors 65816 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: ladner cdn	http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3228
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Feb 26, 2013, 04:37 AM	#3
original poster Thread Starter macrumors member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Berkshire, UK	No that hasn't done what I wanted unfortunately.
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Feb 26, 2013, 04:40 AM	#4
J. Rab macrumors newbie Join Date: Feb 2013	Could you set your POP email as an IMAP connection instead? I've done so in the past where a server is a POP3 but somehow fiddling with the settings managed to do a synced deletion / mail read.
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Feb 26, 2013, 05:14 AM	#5
original poster Thread Starter macrumors member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Berkshire, UK	When I tried setting it up as imap it just crashed the emails!
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Feb 26, 2013, 08:00 AM	#8
original poster Thread Starter macrumors member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Berkshire, UK	Yeah I spoke to the hosting company this morning and they said switch to IMAP which I've done although it's causing no end of trouble, very frustrating!
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Feb 26, 2013, 12:40 PM	#10
flynz4 macrumors 68020 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Portland, OR	You need to use IMAP email. If your current ISP cannot provide that... switch to a new email account that does. Then setup IMAP email on each of your computers. Then forward all of your current email to your new email address. Everything will then come in on your new IMAP email... and do exactly what you want. /Jim
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Feb 26, 2013, 03:10 PM	#11
boy-better-know macrumors 65816 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: England	I have never worked out how to do this with my hotmail account without flaws. My G-mail account does it perfectly though. That is between an iMac, MBP, iPhone and iPad.
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