Laptop email
Hi All,
Having just got my laptop back from repair (grrrr....) I am ready to
reinstall operating systems and recover everything from my backups etc etc.
I'll also take the opportunity to upgrade from slink to potato.
One improvement I would very much like to make over the setup I had before
is this: it would be *very* convenient to store my email on a partition
accessible to both Linux and Win98 (which I have to have for work - sigh)
such that I can access it with a unified set of folders/address book etc
from whichever O/S I happen to be in the time. This also requires a mail
client which runs under both linux and Win98 (or at least a pair of clients
with compatible file formats).
At first sight Netscape Messenger would seem to fit the bill, but
unfortunately it seems to use different filenames (for its mail folders)
under the two O/S's. If the set of filenames were static I could possibly
get around it with some symbolic link trickery on the linux side, but this
would limit me to creating new mail folders only in Windows, and then
manually fiddling to make that new folder work in linux. Yuck. (Also
Netscape has the "one POP server" limitation which is a pain since I use two
POP accounts).
Mahogany looks promising, but I've heard it is still excessively buggy. Does
anyone have any other suggestions?
Christopher Hicks
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