Christopher Hicks wrote: > 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)
I dual boot Windows 95 and GNU/Linux 2.2.14 (from SuSE 6.4), and I use Netscape 4.7 to share one set of email folders on both. I installed and configured my Netscape on Win95 first on D: drive. I log into Linux as uid 500 and gid 100 is "users". My fstab line: /dev/hda8 /d_drive vfat rw,user,uid=500,gid=100,dev,exec,auto,async 0 0 I made this symlink (ln -s) in my own home directory: lrwxrwxrwx 1 bret users 51 Jun 7 14:39 nsmail -> /d_drive/Program Files/Netscape/Users/bwaldow/mail/ My Netscape on Linux points to this mail file (Edit - Preferences - Mail & Newsgroups - Mail Servers - Local Mail Directory): /d_drive/Program Files/Netscape/Users/bwaldow/mail/ Here is the Linux view of those folders: total 42192 -rwxr-xr-x 1 bret users 66566 Jun 7 14:36 Drafts -rwxr-xr-x 1 bret users 13142307 Jul 14 09:38 Inbox drwxr-xr-x 6 bret users 4096 Jul 6 11:18 Inbox.sbd -rwxr-xr-x 1 bret users 423576 Jul 13 11:51 Inbox.snm -rwxr-xr-x 1 bret users 7644531 Jul 12 08:42 Sent -rwxr-xr-x 1 bret users 203504 Jul 3 22:35 Sent.snm -rwxr-xr-x 1 bret users 0 Jun 7 14:36 Templates -rwxr-xr-x 1 bret users 20002443 Jul 14 09:38 Trash drwxr-xr-x 2 bret users 4096 Jun 29 11:52 Trash.sbd -rwxr-xr-x 1 bret users 109076 Jul 2 13:03 Unsent Messages -rwxr-xr-x 1 bret users 5248 Jul 2 13:03 Unsent Messages.snm -rwxr-xr-x 1 bret users 1624 Jul 11 22:54 popstate.dat -rwxr-xr-x 1 bret users 554 Jun 29 10:29 rules.dat That does it. Both instances of Netscape read and write the same folder files. regards, Bret