Hi All, Having just got my laptop back from repair (grrrr....) I am ready to reinstall operating systems and recover everything from my backups etc etc. I'll also take the opportunity to upgrade from slink to potato.
One improvement I would very much like to make over the setup I had before is this: it would be *very* convenient to store my email on a partition accessible to both Linux and Win98 (which I have to have for work - sigh) such that I can access it with a unified set of folders/address book etc from whichever O/S I happen to be in the time. This also requires a mail client which runs under both linux and Win98 (or at least a pair of clients with compatible file formats). At first sight Netscape Messenger would seem to fit the bill, but unfortunately it seems to use different filenames (for its mail folders) under the two O/S's. If the set of filenames were static I could possibly get around it with some symbolic link trickery on the linux side, but this would limit me to creating new mail folders only in Windows, and then manually fiddling to make that new folder work in linux. Yuck. (Also Netscape has the "one POP server" limitation which is a pain since I use two POP accounts). Mahogany looks promising, but I've heard it is still excessively buggy. Does anyone have any other suggestions? Christopher Hicks
