Two computers syncing email and calendar

[Stan Hadley]

My in-laws have added a second Mac and want to be able to read and write
email from either computer. They're on broadband (but only a POP account)
and I'm setting the second up with wireless. At first I thought to put the
Microsoft User Data in the Shared folder of one of the computers and alias
to it on the other, but I think this would still lead to problems if they
both wanted to be on at the same time. My tentative solution is to have them
use a second email address and have a Rule that redirects all emails that
are downloaded to the other address. A second Rule would redirect all sent
emails to the other one as well. To avoid confusion to recipients I would
have the return address for both accounts be their main address. While this
would put a five or ten minute delay before the redirects are sent, I think
the machines should match pretty well.

Does anyone see any problems with this setup?

Separately, they may want the calendar available to both. Is the best way to
do that by assigning a project to all events and then subscribing to the
calendar? Is there a way to default all events to that project so they don't
have to remember every time?

Thanks for any help,

Stan

 

[Stan Hadley]

For those interested, the two e-mail systems with a redirect rule in each
worked, except an extra rule was required that if the mail was Resent From
the other computer then to ignore the rule about redirecting it back.
Otherwise you get a bounce back and forth of the same message.

I didn't try to sync the calendars of the two machines, figured that would
be too complex. Instead I just imported the calendar of one into the other
and will let them diverge. Maybe in the future they can be synced.

Stan