Those who use the Microsoft Outlook program inside an office or organization to receive mail, use a centralized account synchronization system on an Exchange server that allows access to Email from any device or computer. However, if you use the Microsoft Outlook client from home, to manage personal e-mail accounts, if you want to read the mail saved on your computer from other PCs, you certainly cannot set up an expensive Exchange server to keep on 24/24. .
There is a free solution to use Outlook so that emails are synchronized between multiple computers, to read mail and send messages from anywhere using the client included in Microsoft Office.
those who prefer to convey all the emails received in their mail accounts, can configure Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail or other services with Outlook, from all the computers they use, without losing anything.
The trick is to use SkyDrive which, recently, is also a client to be installed on the computer that synchronizes the files in a special folder.
The following configuration steps have been tested on MS Outlook 2007 on Windows 7, but also apply to other versions of Outlook and Windows.
1) Install the SkyDrive client on the computer and note that a new folder is created in C: \ Users \ username_ SkyDrive.
Keep the program and synchronization active.
2) To synchronize e-mails with the Outlook program installed on multiple computers, you need to locate the file in which all the messages are saved.
Then open the Run window (by pressing the Windows + R keys) and open the path C: \ Users \ pomhey \ AppData \ Local \ Microsoft \ Outlook (Replace pomhey with your username).
The same thing can be done by opening Outlook, right clicking on Personal Folders, opening the Outlook data file and closing the program.
3) Cut the Outlook.pst file by moving it from that position to the Skydrive folder created in step 1.
A new folder can be created inside Skydrive so as to put the Outlook data files into it if there are more than one.
4) Start Outlook and be ready to receive an error message because the Outlook.pst file that has been moved is not found.
Click OK and select the file located in the SkyDrive folder.
Close Outlook and reopen it to verify everything is ok.
5) On the other computers you use, install Skydrive by activating synchronization and check that the folder with the outlook.pst file is created.
Then delete the pst files (do not cut but delete them this time) that are in the Appdata folder as in point 2 and set the new data file as in point 4.
For complete and correct synchronization, before deleting files, make sure that SkyDrive has copied all the files uploaded online to the other computers you want to use.
What was done was a simple sharing of the same mail data file .
When this changes on one computer, it also changes in the others, thus ensuring that you see the same things on each where Skydrive has been set up.
With this procedure you don't even need to make a backup of the mail because the pst file, which resides on the computer, is also copied online.
If the PC breaks and you have to format it by reinstalling Windows, there is no fear of losing the mail archive that can be found in the Cloud space.
This procedure can also be done with other services other than Skydrive, such as Dropbox or Google Drive .
The only thing to watch out for is the size of the PST file which should not exceed the limits of cloud storage.
Those who are more technical could use the same folder shared between PCs with Dropbox or Skydrive without moving, through symbolic links
