sync email in 2 PCs sharing storage files (dropbox)

I would love to sync emails in my desktop (Windows 7, choice of windows live mail or thunderbird) and laptop (windows vista, choice of windows mail, currently in use and therefore preferable, or thunderbird).

Would it be possible to do it by using a file sharing/sync service like Dropbox? My ideia is to chage the file storage location for my email files in both computers to a folder inside my dropbox.

Will it work? Do Windows Mail (Vista) and Windows Live Mail (7) use the same type of file?

Thanks!!

I use Thunderbird on 2 different machines. What I do is set it to delete the mail on my mail server after 2 days. Then I set it to only download new messages. If I want a copy of the email on both machines I get the mail from the secondary machine before the stuff on the server is deleted. If it's junk mail, I use an email notification app to delete it on the server. Less chance of picking up a nasty if you delete all the crap on the mail server.

Your setup is a bit different. I haven't used DropBox so I can't speak to it in particular.

Thank you for your reply. This would work for incoming messages, but not for sent mail, right? I can set the mail not to be deleted from server and have incoming messages downloaded to both pcs with no issue, but not the sent messages, that`s why I am going through this much trouble.

What dropbox does is simply update any changes to shared files in all computers that share this folder. So I can easily access updated files from my laptop that have just been changed in my desktop. It`s free up to 2gb and a great way to backup your main files online.

So I imagined that if the folders where I store my email messages are the same (synced) on the 2 PCs, Thunderbird or Windows mails would be synced, including sent messages, deleted, spam, etc..

You could probably set something up to cc yourself with a keyword that your email client can filter and put in Sent Messages or something. On Linux people mail stuff to themselves all the time. It's an easy way to move stuff around with just about any email client.

Anything you store on someone else's server, someone else can read it. They may not be able to easily read it unencrypted. By the nature of keeping servers running there's always somebody who has the power to read/write/delete any file. That's one reason I hate to use online accounts just to sync bookmarks and that type of stuff. Thing is there are very few programs that allow you to use your own ftp account. They all have some free central server. What can you do? It's ubiquitous.