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Email syncing issue

November 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Like a lot of connected tech people, I have multiple email accounts, multiple computers and multiple locations from which I connect to and read my email.  The problem is that there is no good way to keep all the activity you do on those various places synced up.  For instance, I read and delete a bunch of mail while sitting at my laptop downstairs.  Last thing I want to do is repeat the same thing on my machine at work and my machine upstairs.  When I send mail from upstairs, I want the same message to be in my sent mailbox downstairs.  In theory, IMAP should solve this problem, but I have yet to find a good, stable IMAP client that doesn’t freak out when the ‘net connection is lost.  *sigh*  Searching the web I’ve come across a couple of tools that claim to solve the problem for a slight fee.  In the not too distant future I’m gonna check these things out and see how they fare.

Syncing.net claims to be able to sync your inboxes even through a NAT or firewall
http://www.syncing.net/en/home.html

BeInSync claims to be able to sync your inbox and specified folders on your desktop with each other.
http://www.beinsync.com/

Anyone have any thoughts or experience using any of these tools?  Know of any others?

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