On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Frank J. Schmuck wrote:
> I dual boot Nt and RH6.1. The problem is that I pull mail while working on
> either system (there are some things for which I need NT). I archieve
> certain message threads and would like to be able to sync the mail from each
> system.
In my past life I used to do exactly that. Here's how:
First I setup Netscape under Windows to do its thing; as in setup email
fully and making sure everything was working. This creates a directory and
some files somewhere under \Program Files\Netscape\Users\.....
Then under Linux, I put a line in /etc/fstab to always mount the FAT
partition. OK so far so good.
Then I set up Netscape under Linux to do its thing with email. This
creates a directory (I think ~/nsmail), in it there are some mailboxes. I
deleted the mail boxes and made symbolic links with the same names to
point to the corresponding files under FAT partition.
By this time both Netscapes should use the same mailboxes. Finished,
right? Well not quite. Some versions of Netscape have a habit of deleting
and creating the files when updating them. This breaks the link we've
created. I have noticed that this only happens when you exit netscape.
What I did was this: rename /usr/bin/netscape or /usr/local/bin/netscape
to something else. Then I created a small shell script with the name
netscape in the same directory as the original one. The script compares
the files and copy the most up to date one to FAT partition and creates
the links again, then runs the actual netscpae (which you've renamed).
Hope it makes sense :-)
Hossein
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