David Woodhouse wrote:
On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 14:03 +0100, Brian Durant wrote:
That would be nice as I got some errors when I ran "yum update", but until I figure out how to share a Thunderbird profile between Rawhide and OS X, I have to transfer the text files with the error messages between the two systems by using my USB stick.
Linux can read and write OSX hfs+ volumes. I don't see why the Thunderbird profile shouldn't be fairly portable -- if you really need to _share_ it rather than just using the same config in both places, then you might be able to make it work if your userid is the same on both OSX and Linux.
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...
Cheers,
Brian
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?
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
On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 16:27 +0100, Brian Durant wrote:
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.
That one of the reasons why mail filtering is best done at the server which actually receives the mail, rather than in the MUA. But we digress.
You could probably get it working and sharing mailboxen between OSX and Linux, with Linux using the HFS+ file system. I really wouldn't feel happy with that myself; I'd just move the mailboxen onto another machine elsewhere. It doesn't even need to run a public-facing IMAP server; all my IMAP is IMAP-over-SSH anyway. Not sure if Thunderbird supports that but many other MUAs do, and it wouldn't be hard to add.
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.
I keep meaning to play with OSX, which is still installed on a small partition of my PowerBook, but real life and real work keep getting in the way -- it's just easier when it's running Linux.
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