Re: Laptop email

[Bret Comstock Waldow <bwaldow@compuserve.com>]

Christopher Hicks wrote:
> 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)

I dual boot Windows 95 and GNU/Linux 2.2.14 (from SuSE 6.4), and I use
Netscape 4.7 to share one set of email folders on both.

I installed and configured my Netscape on Win95 first on D: drive.  I
log into Linux as uid 500 and gid 100 is "users".

My fstab line:
/dev/hda8  /d_drive  vfat rw,user,uid=500,gid=100,dev,exec,auto,async  
0   0

I made this symlink (ln -s) in my own home directory:
lrwxrwxrwx  1 bret  users  51 Jun  7 14:39 nsmail -> /d_drive/Program
Files/Netscape/Users/bwaldow/mail/

My Netscape on Linux points to this mail file (Edit - Preferences - Mail
& Newsgroups - Mail Servers - Local Mail Directory):
/d_drive/Program Files/Netscape/Users/bwaldow/mail/

Here is the Linux view of those folders:
total 42192
-rwxr-xr-x   1 bret     users       66566 Jun  7 14:36 Drafts
-rwxr-xr-x   1 bret     users    13142307 Jul 14 09:38 Inbox
drwxr-xr-x   6 bret     users        4096 Jul  6 11:18 Inbox.sbd
-rwxr-xr-x   1 bret     users      423576 Jul 13 11:51 Inbox.snm
-rwxr-xr-x   1 bret     users     7644531 Jul 12 08:42 Sent
-rwxr-xr-x   1 bret     users      203504 Jul  3 22:35 Sent.snm
-rwxr-xr-x   1 bret     users           0 Jun  7 14:36 Templates
-rwxr-xr-x   1 bret     users    20002443 Jul 14 09:38 Trash
drwxr-xr-x   2 bret     users        4096 Jun 29 11:52 Trash.sbd
-rwxr-xr-x   1 bret     users      109076 Jul  2 13:03 Unsent Messages
-rwxr-xr-x   1 bret     users        5248 Jul  2 13:03 Unsent
Messages.snm
-rwxr-xr-x   1 bret     users        1624 Jul 11 22:54 popstate.dat
-rwxr-xr-x   1 bret     users         554 Jun 29 10:29 rules.dat

That does it.  Both instances of Netscape read and write the same folder
files.

regards,
Bret