On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 02:08:22PM -0700, David Witbrodt wrote:
This is a newbie question. I just installed Debian and several other OSes onto
my old machine. As I have been reading the docs, and have started configuring
things to my liking, I found myself wondering whether an email application
exists that would allow me to store my mailbox files on a common data
partition, which could be then used by whatever OS was currently running.
I get my email via POP3 from my ISP, so I was thinking that there might be a
single program that has been ported to all of the OSes, making it possible to
use a common mailbox from each platform.
Anyone out there doing this? Is is even possible? Seems to me like it should
be, but I've never faced this scenario before, so I'm facing a steep learning
curve...
I doubt this is really as helpful as I want it to be, but I highly
recommend using IMAP mailboxes rather than local mail for just this
reason. With IMAP you can check and sort your mail using any number
of computers, mail clients, or a web interface, and since the mail is
actually on the server, a change in any client is reflected in any other
client.
Does your ISP support IMAP at all? If so maybe look into using
that rather than POP3, or if not maybe look into an email provider that
does.
If IMAP won't work at all, you might be able to use Mozilla Thunderbird
with a common profile directory shared between all the OSs. I believe
there are command line options to set the profile directory, though I am
not familiar with them. The common directory would have to be on a
filesystem that all the OSs can read and write. If you're using Windows
that would pretty much limit you to using FAT32 or trying one of the
methods to read/write ext2/3 in Windows.
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Steve Block
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http://www.steveblock.com/
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