[pct-l] Email with various providers-Peek

[Trekker4 at aol.com]

I just set up a new email addy for my Peek only;  its too confusing to sort 
out stuff from 2 or more email addys. When I'm hiking  it's too much 
trouble to keep up with, for instance, pct-l and other  subscription stuff. At 
25-100 emails a day, pct-l will push me up against the  1,000 email AOL limit 
if I don't delete hundreds every time I hit a town. 
    In my nerdy way of trying to learn Peek at the last  minute, I stumbled 
across the template function. The Peek Cust Svc rep I  talked to didn't 
even know about it, but they wouldn't pay my training  fee. I've set up a 
template email for my daily trail condition reports,  to J Ley, CDTA, CDTS, B 
Tucker, etc for the CDT, a different  template for the AZT people, and a 
different template for the PCT people later  this summer in WA. 
    I'm setting up a separate template for my friends  and family daily 
journal. I'll make a 2nd copy of each template, in case I fail  to properly 
copy a template before starting a daily email. 
    Why don't I use an online journal? I dunno; just  never got around to 
learning how, and perhaps my journals are a bit more  personal than I'd care 
to put online. Switching from Pmail to Peek is all I care  to handle this 
spring/summer, as I think it'll be harder to use a Peek  while walking.
 
Bob  "Trekker"
Big Bend Desert Denizen, and...
Naturalized Citizen - Republic  of Texas

"Government cripples you, then hands you a crutch and says,  'See, if it 
wasn't for us, you couldn't walk.' " -- Harry Browne

"If you  think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it 
costs when its  free." -- P J O'Rourke



In a message dated 3/26/2010 11:40:44 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
sean at lifesadventures.net writes:

This is  most likley due to the type of account you have set up your email 
client  as.  If you set it up as a POP account, it is likely setup to only 
keep a  local copy of the email.  So the mail server deletes its copy after 
you  download it once.  This means another computer can't download the same  
email.

However, if you set things up as an IMAP account, all emails are  
maintained on the main server and any number of computers can be setup to  receive 
the same emails as its designed to synch up multiple computers using  the same 
account.  This is how I setup my smartphone on the PCT last  year.  I could 
read any email on my smartphone and still read them on my  laptop in town 
that I bounced.  Most likely when you delete emails on  your PEEK, it isn't 
notifying your email server of the change so things are no  longer in synch.  
This is likely a limitation with how your PEEK  works.  I've seen the same 
problem with some  smartphones.

-Miner

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>I  had AOL before the hike. The flat rate PEEK email
>device uses up to  five email accounts.. I used my AOL
>account. When I got to a town  computer I would have to
>re-sort and re-delete emails that I had  already dealt
>with on my Peek email device..Some folks  are
>emailing me saying that once they check a message
>with Peek  they can't review it from their PC. What gives.
>Any Tech savy Geniuses  out there (much
>ACCOLADES) know why the difference? Mucho  Gusto...





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