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Email question - some computers get messages, some don't
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Hanson, MA
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Hi all,
I have a question regarding receiving my email. I have a G5, a Powerbook G4, and Dell Laptop on my home network. For some reason, some emails arrive at the Dell and not the G5, some arrive at both Macs, some arrive at all 3. Any ideas? All email accounts are active on all 3 computers.
Thanks,
Tom
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Join Date: Aug 2004
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You should use IMAP, not POP, to access your e-mail account.
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Nov 1999
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So, I should set it as imap.comcast.net instead of pop.comcast.net??
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2001
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I believe that is Comcast's IMAP server. You also need to set up an IMAP account — accessing the IMAP server with a POP account won't do anything for you.
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Chuck
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I wasn't aware that Comcast had IMAP.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Mar 2001
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There is no IMAP server listening on imap.comcast.net.
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If Comcast doesn't offer IMAP access to your e-mail account, you are kind of screwed. You can not receive mail on multiple Macs without the problems you are describing.
You need to switch to an e-mail provider that does support IMAP, such as another ISP, .Mac/MobileMe, or Yahoo Mail (you need to pay for IMAP). GoogleMail offers free IMAP access, but it is kind of non-standard, so I have read about some problems with it here too.
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Join Date: May 2001
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Would you be happy to receive all your messages to all your computers? If so, this can be arranged with a POP account as the messages will remain on the mail server until you have them deleted. This is typically via a setting in one of the e-mail programs you use. I would guess that at present, some of your e-mail programs are set to delete the mail on server when the messages are retrieved and some are not set like this. This would explain why some messages appear on all computers and others on only some (it depends which machine is checking/deleting the messages).
So, you could ensure that none of the computers are deleting any messages via their preferences/options. Then, your e-mail will appear on all the computers. The downside of this approach is that your mail will then start to fill up on the mail server at your ISP and you will have a specified limit. So, you need to have a strategy for deleting your messages from the server. You can do this manually, but this will be tedious. One option would be to have the mail automatically deleted every week or day if you know that all your computers will check the mail on at least this frequency.
(Or get an account which supports IMAP).
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Moderator  Join Date: Dec 2000
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Get Gmail and have it check your comcast account. Use/enable gmail's IMAP option and don't worry any more about syncing between computers. Your email will now be all on the server, yet updated across all clients.
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