Hi, Mike.
Yes indeed, it's been a while, and it is great to see you're around.
I think I have you on my Skype but haven't seen you online for donkeys'
years. Hope all is going well.
I think you're quite right, below. Make sure that Thunderbird is
closed and then try the filters through the Mac. If that works, and I see no
reason why it should not, and you want to keep Thunderbird and the client
running on the Mac working simultaneously, turn the PC mailer back on, when
you next want it, and see what your server does with them both talking to it
at the same time. As I said, IMAP should handle this well so unless your
server's particular implementation of the protocol is problematic, you
shouldn't have an issue.
As for howTos on filtering, I'm afraid I know nothing whatever about
the Mac. I'm just looking at getting one at some point and am vastly
grateful for the information I'm seeing on this list.
Good luck with the filters.
Aman
-----Original Message-----
From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
[mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Michael Busboom
Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 12:20 PM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Duelling IMAPs?
Hi, Aman,
Long time, no talk. Great hearing from you!
Truth be told, I never have a scheduled time for having my systems pick up
mail asside from the fact that whenever my email client is open, it'll grab
the mail every five minutes or so. So in the spirit of embarking on an
adventure, I'll try my hand at creating filters for the Mac e-mail client.
I'll just make sure that Thunderbird on the PC isn't running. Do you know
if there is a good "how to" on this subject out there?
Again, it's nice having you on my radar, Aman!
Mike
On 2010-02-21 17:55, Aman Singer wrote:
> Hi, Mike.
> To answer your question, I don't think there should be any issue at
> all so long as you don't have both systems set up to receive and
> organize the mail at a specific time schedule. That is, so long as the
> systems are receiving mail and organizing it on command rather than,
> perhaps, every ten minutes, there should be no issues. It might be
> interesting to see what happened of both systems were attempting to
> reorganize messages at the same time. This isn't because IMAP would
> have trouble with this, IMAP specifically allows simultaneous access,
> but some implementations aren't really robust enough to take
> significant work by more than one client on more than one message.
> Basically, if you have either computer to work on a schedule, and if
> the other computer starts its own work at the same time, you are reliant
on the excellence of the server to handle things properly.
> However, if the systems are working one by one, there should be no
problem.
> Even if there was an issue, things would get a bit confused and the
> issues could be corrected, it wouldn't be any sort of serious difficulty.
> Further, keep in mind that some ISPs allow you to do server-side
> classification of some sort. Personally, I don't like this, I prefer
> to have my filters running myself and working on both my POP and IMAP
> servers from the same application, but you may think differently.
> Aman
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
> [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Michael Busboom
> Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 10:03 AM
> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Duelling IMAPs?
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> At present, I regularly use two different computers for checking my mail.
> One of these is my PC running Windows 7, using Thunderbird and the
> other is my Mac where I Have Snow Leopard installed. I use the mail
> client that is a part of SL.
>
> Right now, whenever I check mail on the PC, messages are automatically
> placed in folders that I have set up. Whenever I then go to the Mac,
> these messages are also in their respective folders. The problem
> arises, however, when any new messages arrive in my inbox while using
> the Mac. They are not placed in their designated folders. The reason
> for this is simple: I haven't set up any filters on the Mac side of
> the equation. I was recently told that it would be best to only have one
computer do all the filtering.
> However, I am using my Mac more and more, and I'd like to be able to
> have the mail program on the Mac automatically place messages in the
> right folders. So my question is
> this: If I am really careful about setting up filters on the Mac,
> making sure that both systems use precisely the same filtering
> criteria, should there be any problems having the Mac do the message
> filtering when I use it and having the PC do the message filtering
whenever I use it?
>
> I was told that tidbits.com would soon be releasing a Take Control
> publication for the Mac mail program. I am looking forward to
> purchasing it and hoping that it will address issues such as this one.
>
> My best to all,
>
> Mike
>
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