Copying Outlook from PC to PC

I've gotten the accounts created on both systems using the Brute Force and Massive Ignorance method, so email is largely working... It's incredibly ugly (fonts, type, layout), but it's working.

Veering off into the IMAP vs POP thing... I read a couple things about this and it sounds like the only advantage to IMAP is the coordination with the server...

In my case, I"m home, using the desktop and the laptop is put away. I do normal email stuff, read, write, delete, etc. Then it becomes time to take off and I pull the laptop out, do any updates that are waiting, and currently - copy the .pst from the desktop to the laptop.

Would I NOT have to do this if I switched to IMAP? When I start Outlook on the laptop would it automatically get everything that's sitting in the email on the desktop, delete anything that isn't, and automatically make the laptop match the desktop? If yes, it could be worth it. If not, I'm not seeing any advantage to switching from POP...

For me, I ONLY have one device at a time doing email... My Outlook on the desktop does all the email for the half dozen accounts. My tablet doesn't do email at all, and my cell phone ONLY has a gmail account on it and all that email gets automatically forwarded to one of the email accounts on the desktop.

I don't use the tablet or the phone as an "email" device.

And when the laptop is running, and getting email the desktop isn't. Primarily BECAUSE if I have them both up I never know where the email is going to show up. If IMAP would let me have both active when needed, AND automatically sync the devices so the laptop and desktop would automatically "catch" up, that would be good. But the laptop USUALLY isn't running when I'm home, so when I boot it up it would have to somehow sync with the desktop... Will IMAP do that?

You should be using IMAP in that situation, which means each device (Desktop PC and Laptop) is synced to the Mail Servers. That will occur shortly after the Laptop/Desktop is started up, either or both.

The Sync is with the Mail servers, the source, not between each PC/Laptop.

They (Desktop PC/Laptop) will after a short time show the same Mail.

It eliminates all the copying of Mail folders, far simpler, quicker, & less prone to errors.

You could also use another Mail Client application like the Mail App in Windows 10 using IMAP that would also sync and show the same Mail.

Cool... So I"ll just have a .pst to copy for calendar stuff.

I'll have to give it a try.