Re: Sharing mail data
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On 02/09/2013 06:23 PM, Frank McCormick wrote:
>
> I am running several Linux distributions on my machine - Debian
> sid on one, Ubuntu on another and two versions of Fedora on a 3rd
> and 4th partition.
>
> Is there a way to reliably share the mail data in Thunderbird ?
> When I point the <hidden> .thunderbird directory on another
> partition via a symlink to the one on the Debian Sid partition, the
> mail directories get re-written when T'bird closes to reflect the
> fact the Debian parition is mounted as /media/sda2. If I tell
> Thunderbird on another partition to load its profile from the
> Debian partition it still seems to read and write mail from the
> .thunderbird directory on the partition it was run fromt.
>
> I am looking for a way to tell T'bird to only deal with the
> .thunderbird directory on Debian sid, no matter which partition it
> is run from.
>
> Googling the problem only seems to turn up help to share data
> between Linux and Windows..not between Linux and Linux.
Why don't you store your emails on an imap server? Maybe I didn't
catch it...
Best
Frank
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