Cross platform email software

[satimis]

Hi folks,

I'm searching an email software from Open Source to receive emails from ISP. The same can run on FC5_64 and WinXP as well.

Would "Skype 2.0" be suitable.? Or are there any other suggestions.

TIA

B.R.
satimis

[ccrvic]

Originally Posted by satimis

I'm searching an email software from Open Source to receive emails from ISP. ... Would "Skype 2.0" be suitable.? Or are there any other suggestions.

Errr - Skype isn't an email programme. It's a peer-to-peer VoIP system.

I usually use Squirrelmail for a mail client - it's flexible enough to do what I need, and dumb enough not to open up lots of "helpful" vulnerabilities all the time...

Vic.

[Perty]

Originally Posted by satimis

Hi folks,

I'm searching an email software from Open Source to receive emails from ISP. The same can run on FC5_64 and WinXP as well.

Would "Skype 2.0" be suitable.? Or are there any other suggestions.

TIA

B.R.
satimis

I use Thunderbird, works like a charm both on winxp and fedora. (I have not tried to use the same mailfolder thou)

/per

[Christy]

I use thunderbird and link the mail folder in my linux profile to my windows profile. I don't link the whole profile because I had some trouble with themes and extensions, so I keep those separate for the two.

This is my setup:
- small fat23 partition for my mail and browser profiles (I share my bookmarks between firefox in windows and linux too)
- I created the profile in windows, then booted to linux, started a new profile, and proceeded to link the needed files.
- link the "Mail" folder to get all your local folders and pop folders to be shared between the two thunderbirds
- link "abook.mab" to share your address book

I can provide more detailed instructions if needed.

Good luck.

[satimis]

Hi folks,

Tks for your advice.

Hi christy,

Originally Posted by Christy

This is my setup:
- small fat23 partition for my mail and browser profiles (I share my bookmarks between firefox in windows and linux too)

What will be its size? For personal use only about 60~70 mails per day.

- I created the profile in windows, then booted to linux, started a new profile, and proceeded to link the needed files.
- link the "Mail" folder to get all your local folders and pop folders to be shared between the two thunderbirds
- link "abook.mab" to share your address book

I can provide more detailed instructions if needed.

Could you please provide me its full steps. I have WinXP and FC5 on the same HD. TIA

B.R.
satimis

[Christy]

Ok. My little partition is 2 GB, I have a whole whack (nearly 3 000) of emails saved and still 1.6BG free. I also have my Firefox profile on here, so it's not all emails.

1) Create your FAT32 partition
2) Create your profile in Windows, make sure you tell it to use the new partition
3) Add all the email accounts you're going to need and an entry to the address book.
4) Boot to FC and mount the new partition
5) Start Thunderbird and create a new profile. Just let it put it in its default location.
6) The way I have it set up is that all my accounts are set up for each operating system independently. I changed the server setting for my POP account to "Leave messages on server until I delete or move them from Inbox". However, you could also link the folder between the two operating systems and I think it'll work.
7) I've never done this in Gnome, so this is for KDE. I find it easier to do it graphically instead of from the command line. Open two konqueror windows; in one window navigate to the new partition's mount point and into your thunderbird profile, in the other navigate to your home directory and make hidden files visible (View -> show hidden files).
8) Go into the .thunderbird directory and into the profile. If there is an abook.mab file, delete it. Go to the konqueror window that's displaying the profile on the new partition and drag the abook.mab file into the profile in the second window. Select "Link Here".
9) Repeat this for Mail/Local Folders.
10) If you want to try and share the POP account, delete the appropriate folder in the Mail directory in the FC profile and link the folder from the windows profile.

That should be it. If you run into trouble, let me know.