OT: CrossPlatform email client?

[Edward Muller]

On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 13:24, Bryan Anderson wrote:
> Hi - this seems a fairly newbie friendly place and I got a lot
> of good help from some people here with my mp3 problem, so maybe
> someone will have an answer to this one....
> 
> I really, really want to me rid of MS......but there are a few
> things that I need to dual-boot for, for a while. I *know* that
> the Gimp is supposed to be as good as many Windows graphics
> packages but I know the Windows ones inside out and use my PC
> to make money. Ditto for Dreamweaver.

Some version of Dreamweaver is supposed to run under Codeweaver's
Crossover office, which is a commercial package that allows windows
programs to run on linux.

> 
> Because of these two apps (mainly) I find that I spend most of
> the day in Windows and then the evening in Linux (mostly email,
> usenet, etc). However I am getting fed up of trying to organise
> email in a dual-boot system. Receiving email into either is
> easy enough (just leave on the server in Linux, delete from
> server in Win) but if I then reply to something when in one OS,
> my reply won't appear in the second, etc.

Sounds like you need an IMAP server. Where the client would manipulate
email on the server (storing copies of sent email on the server as
well). Then you could use Mozilla's Email client on both platforms
(Linux and Windows) and have the same functionality.

> 
> Is there a (decent) email client that works with a shared mail
> dir, on a fat32 drive, and has a Windows and a Linux client. It
> needs:
> 
> to be easy to set up/install (complete newbie!)
> multiple account facilities (both pop and smtp)
> decent filtering, rules and folders setup
> 
> Basically I'm after The Bat! or maybe Eudora, that will work
> for both OS's......
> 
> Bryan Anderson <fedora at bryananderson.co.uk>
> 
> 
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