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    Is this even possible?

    Right, this is a bit of a long shot but someone might know. I collect my email on a number of different devices

    - Smartphone
    - Office email account (Outlook)
    - My Mac (Mail)
    - Random PC's via gmail

    Basically I want to know if there is anyway I can sync all these so if I read an email in one place it does not show up at the second.

    Get what I mean?

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    Only if you use a universal source for reading your mail (like G-mail), otherwise read items are stored locally (or on the IMAP server for net mail).

    You may be able to setup all your mail accounts to go to your G-mail like Hotmail used to do before Microsoft made us pay for the priveledge. Then use your various devices to read only that G-mail account. Because G-mail is web based any manipulation to your folders or items will be synchronised accross your devices.

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    I remember before hotmail changed, you could use outlook express with it, and that would synchronise itself with the hotmail server everytime you went online. For example, if you downloaded your email in the morning, it'd still be on the server. Then, if you go to uni and delete your email there using a brower, then next time you opened outlook express whilst online, it'd automatically delete the mail on your PC too, thereby keeping both copies the same.

    I know outlook express is a bit pants, and you may not even use hotmail (probably not allowed now anyway), but there maybe another email client that could do that with Gmail? Maybe?

    If someone knows of a thunderbird extension, or maybe even a new client that does that, I'd be interested too .

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    just use IMAP - it's expressly designed for this "one inbox, many places" approach

    your mail server may not support IMAP though

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    Or an exchange central box

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    If you want e-mail to only be read once, i.e. once read it won't appear at the second location, you can do this with pop3 but you have to make sure that all of the e-mail clients remove the e-mail from the server when they read it. There is usually an option like "leave mail on server" in most pop3 e-mail clients which you'd want to turn off.

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    Using an IMAP account will do pretty much everything you're looking for Nick.
    However, as it is stored on the server, you're limited to how much space you are allocated by the server.
    Best way would be to go the Exchange route...I don't know what your skills are like in the Windows Server/Exchange area, but it can be an arse to set up if you haven't done it before.
    The other option would be to go with a BT Hosted exchange account or a multitude of other companies that offer ASP (Application service provider).

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