Anyone who uses a laptop and their desktop PC will be aware of the scenario where you want to access, download and reply to both your company and personal email, whilst working from different locations. One way around this would be to configure your desktop machine to delete email from the server and enable your laptop to leave the email on the remote server. However, this can cause issues - you might use your desktop PC for over 80% of your work and, if you've set this to delete the email from the server, you can't access old email from your laptop. One answer is to use a synchronisation tool that will compare the database from both email clients and merge data.

SynchPST 3.2 is such a tool. It's not free, but for anyone who uses a desktop and laptop, with Microsoft Outlook, you won't mind spending cash on a tool that synchronises your email effectively, between each computer.

SynchPST link.

29 Aug 2008