Trevor Cordes wrote:
On 24 Sep, Bill Reid wrote:
Almost definitely not possible for numerous reasons.
I think this is very possible. I have shared Mozilla mailboxes between Linux and Windows in the past. I saw a couple of references that sharing of Thunderbird profiles is also possible.
If you shared the mbox file, wouldn't locking get all wacky? Say you were reading your email on Windows while your linux box was POPing some new mail into it.
I would think Samba would handle these situations.
And sharing profiles/bookmarks, not to mention cache directories, would have similar problems, if attempted at the file level. I think the safest bet would be to do like Adam suggested and use IMAP and maybe throw in LDAP for address books or (if Mozilla/TB support it) application layer roaming capabilities.
IMAP is of course the best solution but as you say not that simple to set up.
The problem with LDAP is that Mozilla/TB does not support updating the LDAP entries. Reading no problem.
-- Bill