Re: MessangerPro and the Mac iCloud

On 2 Feb at 9:46, John Sandford <lists@...> wrote:

> Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim@...> wrote:
> 
> > Apple is thrusting down our throats their iCloud.  In principle this
> > can enable Mac Users to move from desktop to portable to iPhone and
> > iPad and work on the same centrally held files on each.  I am
> > reasonably certain this applies also to e-mails.
> > 
> > What I wonder if this might be done with the Mac version of
> > MessengerPro? Might it be possible to tell MPro to store files on
> > iCloud, not only sent and received mails and news but also the MPro
> > rules and filters?  Then I could use either MPro on my Mac desktop
> > or on my Mac Portable and they would be kept in step with one
> > another.
> > 
> > My only misgiving with all this is that iCloud might have a
> > catastrophic failure and lose some of my stuff.  So there would have
> > to be a facility to maintain a copy of all the files on the local
> > backup Network Server.
> > 
> > Or is this infeasible?
> > 
> Its easily achieved without using Icloud if you use imap for email
> instead of pop, this means that you read your mail with Mpro but its
> stored on your isp's servers not your local computer, so can be
> read/replied to/moved to folders etc.you can also keep copies on your
> computer(s) and sync with the online account. Its all in the manual
> for Mpro.
> 
> John

Many thanks: I'll give that a whirl.  I have set up IMAP before but not
quite for this purpose.

-- 
Tim Powys-Lybbe                                           tim@...
             for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/

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