How can I sync sent emails sent from Outlook 2016 on one laptop with my other computer?

Question

I have Outlook 2016 on both my laptops. How can I automatically sync sent emails from one laptop to the other?

Answer 1

Download AbleBits add-in for Outlook. Use the add BCC function to automatically send a BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) to yourself for every email you send out. Send out a test email to anyone. When the BCC email arrives back to yoyu, set up a rule to automatically send all emails received from your own address to a new folder named Sent_BCC. All sent emails will then appear in your second laptop in the Sent_BCC folder.



Now, emails you send out using laptop 1 will appear in the Sent folder and the returning BCC copy will be in the Sent_BCC folder. On laptop 2, it will not appear in sent, but it will appear in your Sent_BCC folder.

Answer 2

If it's a POP/SMTP account, it's not possible.



Since you failed to tell us who your provider is, can't do much else other than guess.

Answer 3

This can be rather difficult if you have a Post Office Protocol (POP) email server because one of the computers will download the email from the server and erase the server's content. If you have an Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) email server it is easy because it is actually housed on the email server, not on the pc. My suggestion is to convert to an IMAP server and the problems go away.

Answer 4

Well as long as it wasn't connected via POP then all you need to do is add the same email account in Outlook on your other laptop and it should sync all the emails that are stored on the email server. If they were connected via POP then you need to export the emails to a PST, copy to a thumb drive or external hard drive and the import them into the other Outlook.



EDIT:

Since it's using IMAP then you're set. Nothing to copy over or export. Just sign into Outlook with your email account on laptop 2 and it will sync the same emails.