Synchronize laptop and desktop Inboxes

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I recieve Email on my desktop and sometimes on the laptop. I want to be able
to add the emails received to Outlook so they both have the same messages.
Anyone knpw how? I am using XP and Outlook 2003.
 
I had the same question earlier.

Go to Outlook (on each computer). Go to Tools. Go to E-mail accounts.
Select change (for each account you have, or that you want to effect).
Select the More Settings Tab. Select Advanced. At the bottom, check Leave a
copy.... And then change the quantity of days to what you need.
 
I am sometimes on the road for an extended period of time and do not want to
exceed the ISP storage limits. Why can't MS provide a "converter" for 2003
..pst files so that we can export contacts, mail to older Outlook? They did
for word files when they had a change there!
 
Grouch said:
I am sometimes on the road for an extended period of time and do not
want to exceed the ISP storage limits. Why can't MS provide a
"converter" for 2003 .pst files so that we can export contacts, mail
to older Outlook?
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They have. Outlook 2003 contains the ability to create an Outlook
97-2002-compatible PST so that you can move your OL 2003 data to the older
PST format and use that in the older version(s). Moreover, Outlook 2003
will work with the older version directly, so there should be no need to
convert if you simply use an old version PST as your delivery location in OL
2003. Of course, the size restriction the old format PST has is still a
factor then.
 
I'm running Outlook 2003 on my desktop and my laptop. While I'm at home I use
my desktop and when on the road I use my laptop. Just before I leave on a
trip I copy from my DT to my LT my mailbox.pab and outlook.pst, when I return
home I reverse the procedure. This ensures that any contact, task, calendar
or anyother Outlook information I update while I'm on the road will be on my
DT by the reverse copy. If there is a better solution I'm not aware of it.
I'm a single user and do NOT have an exchange server.
 
I should clarify - My desktop uses XP and Office 2003. The laptop uses XP
with office XP. The problem is that I cannot export from the Laptop to the
desktop as MS in their wisdom has changed the file format! The reason is
suposedly to make international formats work. They have not provided a
solution for those of us who used Outlook XP as formatted by default to go
back to older versions of Outlook. I found the problem After I imported from
the older to the newer format and returned home to find I could not reverse
the process! I am on the road now and don't know what to do when I get home
again.
 
I did not think my solution would work for you. Why not just update your
laptop to office 2003?

I've just started to test with EZOutlookSync , see
http://www.ezoutlooksync.com/ but I'm not sure if it will work between
differenc versions of OL.
 
EZOutlookSync will work with any version of Outlook if you run it on
the machine which has the latest version. I.e., you can synchronize
Outlook 2000 PST with Outlook 2003 PST (unicode), if you run it on PC
that has Outlook 2003 installed.

Max
www.ezoutlooksync.com
 
I have Outlook 2003 on the Laptop. I have an Older version (XP) on the
desktop. I would be happy to upgrade the Outlook if there was a reasonable
price to do the upgrade and get rid of the problem. I refuse to pay $100+
to upgrade just because MS decided to make a change in the format for
international users.
 
Grouch said:
I should clarify - My desktop uses XP and Office 2003. The laptop
uses XP with office XP. The problem is that I cannot export from the
Laptop to the desktop as MS in their wisdom has changed the file
format!
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There are exceppent reasins for that, the prinmary being that the new format
can hold ten to two thousand times the data as the old format. Modern
businesses require that kind of storage ability and Outlook's main clientele
are businesses.
The reason is suposedly to make international formats work.
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That's a second reason, yes.
They have not provided a solution for those of us who used Outlook
XP as formatted by default to go back to older versions of Outlook.
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Sure they have. Outlook 2003 will employ the older format PST seamlessly.
Just keep your PST in the OL 2002 format and you won't have any issues.
 
The problem is that once I have received the emails on the new format I
cannot go back to the older Desktop and update it. If I could, I could then
convert this Laptop to the "old" format - hopefully. the other answer would
be if there was an economic way to update the desktop version of Outlook.
 
Grouch said:
The problem is that once I have received the emails on the new format
I cannot go back to the older Desktop and update it.
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What do you mean? If your Outlook (ANY version) is using an old-format PST
as the delivery location, there's nothing to "update", other than to copy
the PST back-and-forth.
 
JGT said:
I'm running Outlook 2003 on my desktop and my laptop. While I'm at home I use
my desktop and when on the road I use my laptop. Just before I leave on a
trip I copy from my DT to my LT my mailbox.pab and outlook.pst, when I return
home I reverse the procedure. This ensures that any contact, task, calendar
or anyother Outlook information I update while I'm on the road will be on my
DT by the reverse copy. If there is a better solution I'm not aware of it.
I'm a single user and do NOT have an exchange server.
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