With a similar set up, I have a VFAT/FAT32 partition for mail which is accessible from both WinXP and Gentoo. I use Opera and its M2 mail client as this means I have exactly the same functionality on both operating systems and no worries about mailbox format.
On Wednesday 22 Oct 2003 18:46 pm, Hall Stevenson wrote: > On Wednesday 22 October 2003 20:45, Sami Salonen wrote: > > I have a dual setup with Gentoo Linux and MS Win XP. My wife uses > > Win XP and sometimes while she's working I would like to be able to > > check my emails without having to reboot to Gentoo. > > > > In Gentoo I fetch my mails from my remote server with KMail & POP. > > I have a shared disk with Win and now I would like to know what > > kind of setup I need to have to be able to fetch my mails either > > from > > > > a) Gentoo > > b) MS Win > > > > and have the same local mailbox available in both systems? > > > > Can this be done with KMail and do I need to tell it to store > > mailbox in some specific format? What software should I use in MS > > Win? Have anyone else tried this? > > I do this also (using WinXP and Eudora at work to check personal mail) > and what I do is set the Windows mail client up to leave messages on > the POP server with the option to delete them from the server *if* I > delete them locally, i.e. empty my mail trash. This way, I delete 90% > of the messages I see daily (mailing lists, usually). The ones I > want, I usually just leave in my inbox. When I get home, I check mail > and those messages that I didn't delete get delivered here. > > Hall > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
