Re: Laptop email
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
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