http://www.ritlabs.com New posts in Sharing Accounts between PC's of forum at www.ritlabs.com [www.ritlabs.com] en http://backend.userland.com/rss2 Thu, 07 May 2009 15:03:40 +0300 Sharing Accounts between PC's Accounts on network shares in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
Ah, I understand. He stated he has his own server, so did I. That one was not reachable by the outside world.

It was a server in my own network, running fetchmail to get the mails from different accounts into my IMAP account(s). No SMTP, IMAP, POP3 or HTTP(S) ports were open. When outside the office I used a Secure VPN connection on my laptop to connect to the server in my office (and to the network, printer etc.)

So, from my point of view there was no security issue

But if you run a publicly accessible server, the security risk is somewhat higher.
07 May 2009 15:03:40, Paul Zwiers.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic8150/message28668/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic8150/message28668/ Thu, 07 May 2009 15:03:40 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client Sharing Accounts between PC's Accounts on network shares in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
I try to keep anything 'public' facing as empty as possible although it is unlikely that an attack would succeed (and for obvious reasons I'm not saying why) I still don't like keeping data of any kind on a public facing server web or otherwise.
07 May 2009 14:41:02, Jabba.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic8150/message28667/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic8150/message28667/ Thu, 07 May 2009 14:41:02 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client Sharing Accounts between PC's Accounts on network shares in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
Hi Neil,

I had the exact same requirements (also business) and used IMAP. Why don't you want to store email on the server?

Paul
07 May 2009 12:52:46, Paul Zwiers.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic8150/message28664/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic8150/message28664/ Thu, 07 May 2009 12:52:46 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client Sharing Accounts between PC's Accounts on network shares in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
OK there have been a few questions similar to this but none seem to have a definative solution.

I want to buy another copy of The Bat but before I do I need a working solution for two machines accessing the same E-Mail account - WHY? well because I want the 'sales' account visible from more than one machine - sometimes simultaneously - I do NOT want to leave mail on the mail server (we run our own mailserver).

I created a test on a shared folder on one of our servers and it works fine on the share - except every time I restart The Bat the account located on the network share has disappeared, it's easy enough to recreate and then works again but doing this every time I restart is a pain in the butt. So what is wrong here how can I stop the account disappearing?

Basically my wife is sales and I am admin but I want to be able to see the sales account when she is 'elsewhere' WITHOUT using her machine to do it so local E-Mail folders are out of the question, I did a trial with some of the synchronisation methods I read about here but frankly none of these are reliable enough to trust business E-Mail to.

Can E-Mail accounts be set such that they can be displayed but not be 'connected' in The Bat.
07 May 2009 12:14:00, Neil Kirkland.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic8150/message28660/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic8150/message28660/ Thu, 07 May 2009 12:14:00 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client