Sync'ing Mail between iBook and iMac

[Charles Martin]

> From: Jim Shimozawa <kotonk2 at mac.com>
>
> I wish Apple would strengthen Mail's
> anti-spamming feature though. Lately, it's allowing too many messages
> with 'viagxx' , 'erexxxxxx', etc. when I have it set up to move such
> e-mail to trash.
> Well, that's another topic.

My understanding (I haven't tested it out personally) is that Panther's 
version of Mail (1.3) includes "much improved" anti-spam filtering.

As for the original poster's complaint (wants to be able to view or 
delete email from either of two machines), the solution for him is not 
a .Mac account necessarily, but an IMAP account. Check with your ISP to 
see if your email with them can be an IMAP-format email account instead 
of the older standard POP3 (aka POPmail) type account.

Others can provide a FAR better explanation of IMAP than I can, and 
there's loads of info on the web about it for the googling, but in a 
nutshell, POP accounts TRANSFER the mail from their server to your hard 
drive when you request mail. IMAP servers KEEP the mail on the ISP's 
server (and optionally copy it onto your hard drive). The advantage is 
that you can delete or "read" email from one location, and when you go 
to another machine the email you deleted is gone, and the email you 
marked read is seen on the "new" machine as having been read.

In short, IMAP is ideal for people who manage their email from more 
than one machine. Dot-Mac accounts are by default IMAP accounts.

_Chas_

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