"Syncing" with Outlook

[Gary]

I have a user with two machines that use Outlook and they're both set up with
IMAP accounts. The Personal Folders basically have the same folder
structure. The problem is that the user will sometimes move mail from the
IMAP/mail server to Personal Folders on one machine as well as the other.
The problem this creates is that these messages are obviously not on both
machines. The user would like his email on one machine. I'd like to know if
I can "sync" the email by taking the .pst from one machine and importing it
to the others while selecting the option to NOT import duplicates.

For example, let's say that both machines have the following in their
Personal Folders:

Mike
Steve
John
Dave

Machine #1 has 25 emails in the "Dave" folder whereas Machine #2 has 30
emails in the "Dave" folder. Can I "sync" these by simply importing the .pst
from one machine to the other and selecting the option to not import
duplicates? Please advise. Thank you.

NOTE: Please ignore the fact that the user has an IMAP account. The
important thing to remember is that each machine has different email stored
on its hard drive and I need to get all that mail on one machine.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I have a user with two machines that use Outlook and they're both set
up with IMAP accounts.

Didn't you ask this in another group as well? Please don't multipost.

I'd like to know if I can "sync" the email by taking
the .pst from one machine and importing it to the others while
selecting the option to NOT import duplicates.

Never import. With Outlok closed on the source PC, copy the PST (not the
IMAP PST, but the one to which the person has moved messages from the IMAP
folders) and transfer it to the destination PC. Place it anywhere on the
hard drive, but do not overwrite any PST of the same name. Make sure the
copied PST is not read-only. Start Outlook and click File>Open>Outlook Data
File. Browse to the moved PST, select it, and click OK. It will open and
you'll have full access to everything it contains.

Remeber, do NOT do this with the IMAP PST. It's unnecessary because those
folders will always match on the two PCs, since the data in them comes from
the server. You might want to look at this:
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/sync.asp