On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 21:36, Bruce KIlpatrick <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have been trying to figure out the best (easiest) way to sync > Thunderbird on both machines.
What I've done is to point ~/.mozilla-thunderbird to some server that both machines can access. I've used SMB to host a directory and it's worked well. It's the default sharing mechanism in Ubuntu, and because this was limited to my LAN I could have used NFS, but SMB allowed for authentication. If encrypted NFS was available (versus tunneling NFS via SSL) I'd have gone that route so I could sync mail remotely. I've since switched to Google, to which I can IMAP with Thunderbird or use their web interface if I'm not near my own PCs. I used IMAP to move all of my archived mail to Gmail. Gmail has lots of features: polling up to 4 POP accounts, intuitive filtering, excellent spam filters, autoresponder, and more. Some users have had success with gmail drive, which literally mounts a gmail account as a filesystem. I'm sure there are some drawbacks, but it's free, and free is pretty cheap. http://su.pr/6aAMaa _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
