On Sun, 2002-06-30 at 21:06, Neal Lippman wrote: > In terms of email: I use kde on my linux workstation, and the rest of my > family uses outlook or outlook express on their windows boxen. I use an smtp > server on my website (outside my lan) to accumulate email, and then d/l it > into kmail via pop. Kmail, of course, stores its file on my nfs share, so > they are (in theory) accessible no matter where I log in on the network. In > practice, however, kde (and gnome, for that matter) don't seem to know > anything about multiple simultaneous logins (essentially they don't handle > multiple instances of kmail or any other K'apps properly) so one wants to be > careful about that sort of situation.
>From what I know, kmail uses mbox type files to save email, and since you can't lock only part of a file, this is why you can only log in from one machine at a time (I think that is what you were talking about, right?) I have found IMAP to be much more flexible. I am logged in to my imap server from three different computers at the moment, my laptop, desktop, and my work system over a vpn. I would highly reccomend IMAP instead of POP as a solution because of its greater flexibility. just my 2 cents -Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
