complex Mail System solution

[kcpant]

Hi friends,

I need your help in finding some logic for a mail solution. Customer is having 2 devices for senior executives: one laptop and one iPaq. Now he wants that incoming mails should get downloaded to both the devices, and if any executive reads his mail in any of the 2 devices, it should be flaged as "read" in another device, so that executive can understand that he already read that mail.can you please help me how can I make such a solution, preferably based on sendmail server & MS outlook client? one solution is webmail, but cutomer wants it to be working through a mail client instead of webmail.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Outlook has a feature that lets you leave mail on the server. Its built into the configuration of every outlook client.

That and some outlook rules for should actually do the trick. The feature to notify when the message is read might work for internal mail.

Another possible solution might be blackberry, though the current legal situation might make you wish to wait a bit.

SEP

[kcpant]

Thanks SEP,

the feature of read notification of Outlook will not work in this scenario, because read notification is a separate mail sent to sender, it is not that it will flag the same mail in another device of same user. can you tell me more about blackberry based solution, because I heard that somebody is porposing the same solution to this customer.

[Ivan Ferreira]

I think that the SEP alternative is the best. You can also use IMAP, but you must instruct to the user that all mail that wants to have offline should be copied/cached locally.

For the notification, you can use procmail in the server.

[kcpant]

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