Is it possible to install Thunderbird on my desktop and laptop and to have continue synchronization between this pc's?
Both pc's use Windows 8.1. What I am looking for is to have always the same information on both pc's: e-mails, archive, addresbook etc.
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Email messages: use IMAP.
Address Books: use an online address book and sync both (all) your Thunderbirds to it. I use Google Contacts and gContactSync.
Calendars: use an online calendar and sync both (all) your Thunderbirds to it. I use Google Calendar and Lightning.
That's my method. Some use a process (which I consider unbelievably tedious) of swapping the profile folder between the various computers.
Some go about this by keeping the shared profile on Dropbox (or similar) but since a profile can grow fairly quickly to several gigabytes, it can be very slow for the upload and download.
The shared profile works well enough if all the computers are alike. It wouldn't work for me, because I use a mix of Linux and Windows, and certain add-ons, such as the Lightning calendar, have to be created for a specific platform. So a Windows-compatible Lightning won't work on Linux, and vice versa.
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Email messages: use IMAP.
Address Books: use an online address book and sync both (all) your Thunderbirds to it. I use Google Contacts and gContactSync.
Calendars: use an online calendar and sync both (all) your Thunderbirds to it. I use Google Calendar and Lightning.
That's my method. Some use a process (which I consider unbelievably tedious) of swapping the profile folder between the various computers.
Some go about this by keeping the shared profile on Dropbox (or similar) but since a profile can grow fairly quickly to several gigabytes, it can be very slow for the upload and download.
The shared profile works well enough if all the computers are alike. It wouldn't work for me, because I use a mix of Linux and Windows, and certain add-ons, such as the Lightning calendar, have to be created for a specific platform. So a Windows-compatible Lightning won't work on Linux, and vice versa.