Incoming from David Witbrodt: > This is a newbie question. I just installed Debian and several other OSes > onto my old machine. As I have been reading the docs, and have started > configuring things to my liking, I found myself wondering whether an email > application exists that would allow me to store my mailbox files on a common > data partition, which could be then used by whatever OS was currently running.
Hit a carriage return from time to time, 'kay? > I get my email via POP3 from my ISP, so I was thinking that there might be a > single program that has been ported to all of the OSes, making it possible to > use a common mailbox from each platform. How about a common /home partition they would all mount? You'll have to pick a filesystem they can all read+write, and you'll have to synch UIDs and GIDs. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling Please don't Cc: me. - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]