On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 13:24, Bryan Anderson wrote: > Hi - this seems a fairly newbie friendly place and I got a lot > of good help from some people here with my mp3 problem, so maybe > someone will have an answer to this one.... > > I really, really want to me rid of MS......but there are a few > things that I need to dual-boot for, for a while. I *know* that > the Gimp is supposed to be as good as many Windows graphics > packages but I know the Windows ones inside out and use my PC > to make money. Ditto for Dreamweaver. > > Because of these two apps (mainly) I find that I spend most of > the day in Windows and then the evening in Linux (mostly email, > usenet, etc). However I am getting fed up of trying to organise > email in a dual-boot system. Receiving email into either is > easy enough (just leave on the server in Linux, delete from > server in Win) but if I then reply to something when in one OS, > my reply won't appear in the second, etc. > > Is there a (decent) email client that works with a shared mail > dir, on a fat32 drive, and has a Windows and a Linux client. It > needs: > > to be easy to set up/install (complete newbie!) > multiple account facilities (both pop and smtp) > decent filtering, rules and folders setup > > Basically I'm after The Bat! or maybe Eudora, that will work > for both OS's...... > > Bryan Anderson <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> I have not actually tried what you are proposing, however, you might want to try Mozilla Mail, since it is available on both Windows and Linux with consistent mail/folder formats. Under the server settings, you can specify the local folder in which you store your mail. Presumably you should be able to indicate /mnt/windows/Your.Windows.Mozilla.Mail.Folder. BTW, when I made the transition from Outlook under WinXP to Evolution under RH, I used Mozilla Mail under Windows as an intermediate step to import my Outlook folders (including attachments) into a Mozilla folder tree. I then used that tree as the source to import my mail and attachments into Evolution, one folder at a time. It worked incredibly well, better than the other recommended means of transferring mail from OL to Evo. HTH, Marc Schwartz
