Posted on: 28-01-09 21:27:20
I am trying to understand something and want experts to please help.
My company uses POP3 for its emailing. I have setup my Ms-Outlook 2007 and my company's website's email client to get emails. This account is shared by 4 different users.
Now my company has a outlook plug in developed to sync with its site.
My confusion is that do i need to sync emails as well? i get my email on both client so where does synchronization come into this picture?
Does it make sense to you ....
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Originally posted by HelloG
Does it make sense to you ....
No - it does not ...
But I'll dig in for clarification.
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I have setup my Ms-Outlook 2007 and my company's website's email client to get emails.
By my company's website's email client you mean "My company's email address"
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Now my company has a outlook plug in developed to sync with its site.
I don't get this - and don't know what to ask you on this for further clarification. Plugin for POP3 or IMAP?
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Originally posted by HelloG
i get my email on both client
You mean, both users? or both POP3 & IMAP
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My confusion is that do i need to sync emails as well? i get my email on both client so where does synchronization come into this picture?
Does it make sense to you ....
You can download emails on to your Outlook2007 with both POP3 & IMAP. But difference is in 'what happens after that' ...
You say, 4 different users are using this account. So lets take this scenario -
Say your POP3 client is configured to leave a copy of emails on Server after downloading for other 3 users. So new mail comes in, it gets downloaded to your machine using POP3. You think its junk and not required. So you delete it. Now, what will happen when other 3 users starts their outlook after you? Will they receive this junk email as well? Yes, they will because copy was left on Server and you used POP3 client to delete the mail.
If you had used IMAP Client to delete - other 3 users would not have received this junk mail. It would have been deleted in Server.
Now you see ... This where Synchronization comes into picture. IMAP Clients synchronizes itself with Server while POP3 Clients don't. So I believe the Plug-in that you are refering is for POP3 Clients to sync with server (Which does not happen).
I hope I haven't confused you more...
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Thanks Maharaj for clearing things.
The plug in is actually for Outlook 2007 to sync it with my office's site.It syncs contacts and calendars but i never tried syncing Emails so far.So all this khichri started in my mind trying to make sense of it all.
Yes my office email is through POP3 and we have it checked to leave a copy on server. So Maharaj if it was IMAP, do you say that then syncing might have made sense.
Ahhhhh Bheja fry hai yeh sab!
With POP3, the mail is "popped" off server and onto your computer. There's no synchronizing going on, just copying of mail files from one place to another. Though, you can choose to leave a copy of the mail on the server otherwise it gets deleted. POPPING is good if you just want to get online, download your email, and get off line again.
With IMAP your email client is constantly connected to our server (hence it is always in Sync). It does Cache your emails locally which you can work on offline. IMAP is good if you access your email from lots of different machines and when Multiple clients needs to simultaneously connecte to the same mailbox. It's also good if you have a slow connection, because it only downloads the email headers until you choose to read a whole message. That again is good for deleting spam by just reading the subject line!
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