Re: How can I share a mailbox between multiple OSes
On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 02:08:22PM -0700, David Witbrodt wrote:
> This is a newbie question. I just installed Debian and several other OSes onto my old machine. As I have been reading the docs, and have started configuring things to my liking, I found myself wondering whether an email application exists that would allow me to store my mailbox files on a common data partition, which could be then used by whatever OS was currently running.
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> I get my email via POP3 from my ISP, so I was thinking that there might be a single program that has been ported to all of the OSes, making it possible to use a common mailbox from each platform.
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> Anyone out there doing this? Is is even possible? Seems to me like it should be, but I've never faced this scenario before, so I'm facing a steep learning curve...
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> Thank,
> Dave W.
Last time I did anything like this was when I was moving from one distro
of linux to another. I made sure the new linux mounted the old one, and
symlinked /var/spool/mail across partitions.
This way, there was only one mailbox.
-- hendrik
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