Sharing Thunderbird Mails Between Linux and Windows

[Dan]

Manish Kathuria wrote:
> Andy Burns wrote:
>> Manish Kathuria wrote:
>>
>>> In order to make the same set of emails accessible on both Windows 
>>> XP Home and Fedora Core on my dual boot laptop
>>
>> Do you have the option of leaving them on the server at all times and 
>> accessing them using IMAP4? If so you can also point a webmail client 
>> at the server when you have neither the home or laptop PC to hand ...
>>
> Not really. I have limited space per account and moreover the archived 
> mails are now almost 1 GB. I just want to make this work smoothly.
>
I used to do this also, but have since just put them on my linux 
partition because 1. I rarely use windows on this machine anymore, 2. I 
hate FAT32, and 3. Thunderbird would have to rebuild summaries or 
something every time I opened a folder for the first time (including on 
startup). If I was to still share it, though, I would do what I'm now 
doing on my desktop: make the FAT32 partition into an ext2 partition, 
and get the driver for windows at http://www.fs-driver.org . Excellent, 
easy to use, minimal problems, and I don't think you'd have any of the 
issues of FAT32's suckiness. ;) You could also make it ext3, but either 
way Windows would use it as an ext2 (w/o journaling for filesystem 
stability).
-Dan