Re: Sharing mail data
On 02/09/2013 10:54 PM, Frank McCormick wrote:
> On 09/02/13 01:38 PM, Frank wrote:
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>> On 02/09/2013 06:23 PM, Frank McCormick wrote:
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>>> I am running several Linux distributions on my machine - Debian
>>> sid on one, Ubuntu on another and two versions of Fedora on a 3rd
>>> and 4th partition.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to reliably share the mail data in Thunderbird ?
>>> When I point the <hidden> .thunderbird directory on another
>>> partition via a symlink to the one on the Debian Sid partition, the
>>> mail directories get re-written when T'bird closes to reflect the
>>> fact the Debian parition is mounted as /media/sda2. If I tell
You could also try to bind-mount the directory:
# mount -o bind /media/sda2 /home/linux-fan/.thunderbird
>>> Thunderbird on another partition to load its profile from the
>>> Debian partition it still seems to read and write mail from the
>>> .thunderbird directory on the partition it was run fromt.
>>>
>>> I am looking for a way to tell T'bird to only deal with the
>>> .thunderbird directory on Debian sid, no matter which partition it
>>> is run from.
>>>
>>> Googling the problem only seems to turn up help to share data
>>> between Linux and Windows..not between Linux and Linux.
>>
>> Why don't you store your emails on an imap server? Maybe I didn't
>> catch it...
>>
>> Best
>> Frank
>
> Well I was hoping there would be a simple way to tell Thunderbird to
> read/write from mail data on another partition. Maybe that's not possible ?
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