Todd Allcock <elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> wrote in news:fsvbfk$5hq$1
@aioe.org:

> At 01 Apr 2008 19:55:43 -0700 Robert A. Fink, M. D. wrote:
>
>> When I read a piece of POP3 mail, I either save it to a folder or
>> delete it from the server. Therefore, it is deleted and will not
show
>> up on the phone if I have read it on the computer, or vice versa.
>>
>> Correct?
>
>
> This explains it better than I ever could:
> http://www.imap.org/imap.vs.pop.brief.html, but essentially each
device
> keeps track of what POP mail it's downloaded but no device knows what
the
> others have done.
>
> (Having said that, however, some "POP" services, like GMail or AOL,
don't
> follow the POP protocol and therefore don't play by the rules- they
just
> act like POP services to allow access by POP e-mail clients.)
>
>
>

None of this would be an issue if you boys had a working SSH remote
desktop.

I only use one email client, the one in my office on real broadband. I
access it from this tablet, like I'm doing sending this message, from
anywhere on the planet over remote desktop, either from my N800 Linux
tablet or my laptop.

All storage is done safely on my UPS-backed office system so I only have
one database of traffic to contend with....no syncing, no trying to
figure out where the message went, no losing it over the sellphone
system. When I store it, it's stored right where it should be, in the
office RAID array where it's easy to find.

When you send a file/photo/video to someone, it goes out of the office
system at cable speed, not out of the portable slow as a turtle. If
someone sends me a big file, it takes no space from the portable device
memory to store, and doesn't suck up battery time waiting and waiting
for the slow sellphone downloads to kill the battery. It simply works
better....and the email system at the office downloads every hour so I
have no wait time at all. It's there when I call, large files, huge
pictures and all.

I finally got the interfacing between rdesktop on the Linux tablet and
Remote Desktop on the WinXP-SP2 box working so I can move files between
them over the same link, which is really cool....albeit slow if the link
is sellular, not wifi. The tablet's memory cards now show up in Windows
Explorer when I'm connected over rdesktop just as if it were a USB hard
drive plugged into the hub.

Remote Desktop is the way to fly. Iphone users will even believe you
have WinXP running on the Linux tablet when it's connected....(c; The
look on their faces seeing Google Earth on the tablet is PRICELESS...

There's a feature iPhone could use.....remote desktop!