On Monday 09 August 2004 03:31 pm, Rob Toner wrote: > Wondering if anyone has been able to run a single email client that can be > used for both Windoze and Linux? I'm looking to dual boot between Win 2K > and Mandrake. However, maintaining two seperate email clients is getting > ugly. My ISP doesn't support IMAP so thats out..
If you are going to keep your mail on a local drive, you are kind of in a tight spot. If you use a FAT32 partition for it, then essentially, your mail is an open book to anyone with access to the computer cause unix file permissions don't work on FAT32 and there is not anyway that I know of to secure FAT32. If you are going to use a Linux filesystem, then you won't have access to it on the Windows side. IMAP is the only way that I know of to keep your mail accessible to both environments and that needs a server so unless you have a machine sitting around that you can work into an independent mail server, I don't know how you can arrange to share mail between dual boot machines. The way I see it, the mail client you use is not really material. It is the location of the mail itself and the filesystem that is used. Beyond that, you can use any combination of mail clients that support the same mail structure, either mbox or maildir. Finding one, like Mozilla, say, that work the same in both environments is the easy part. Unless I am missing something and making this more complicated than it actually is. -- Bryan Phinney
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