David Woodhouse wrote:
On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 14:44 +0100, Brian Durant wrote:
There should be a way of directing Thunderbird to the profile on the hfs+ partition (HD), but I don't see those instructions on Mozilla.org any more. They used to work with the old Moz monolithic app, but I have only seen references when googling about Firefox/Thunderbird being quite finiky when this is attempted. In principle two seperate profiles should be possible, as long as the mbox files are shared. That would avoid an overwriting of the extension preferences between OS's, just in case the same pref files aren't an exact match between platforms...
I would always be using IMAP, personally -- you don't really have to _share_ anything then. Failing that, can't you fake it with symlinks?
I use IMAP for the most part as well, but I often get 50 e-mails per day and have 20 local mbox folders as well as my 5 accounts and e-mail filters, so... it would be nice to be able to run the same mail and get the same results, regardless of whether I am booting from OS X or FC Rawhide.
I also have a fairly large number of e-mails that I have archived from when I have tried getting Linux to run on other systems, that I refer to now and again. While OS X has a lot of eye candy and does what it does pretty well, the *NIX underpinnings are under supported along with Fink and different package bits, so I am hoping at some point to be able to run my box only on Linux at some point.
Cheers,
Brian