Sharing Thunderbird Mails Between Linux and Windows

[Robin Laing]

Manish Kathuria wrote:
> Jacques B. wrote:
> 
>>> Has anyone tried something similar ? Its important for me to have the
>>> mails accessible in Windows as well as Linux but not at the cost of data
>>> corruption and loss. What all can be done to make this arrangement more
>>> stable and robust and prevent any data corruption ?
>>>
>>> I would really appreciate some suggestions or pointers in this regard.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Manish
>>>
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>> Your idea sounds quite good.  I hadn't thought of that.  I suppose you
>> could use a thumb drive instead of a partition on a hard drive. 
>> Personally I simply set one of them to not remove the messages off the
>> server.  I realize that means retrieveing them twice, and the sent
>> messages are not mirrored on the other system.  But on the plus side
>> it would give redundancy...
>>
>> Jacques
>>
> In order for the thumb drive to be accessible on both Linux and Windows, 
> the thumb drive partition needs to be FAT32 and it could run into 
> similar problems as the hard disk partition. Moreover the large mail 
> volume makes it impossible to keep them on the server.
> 

How about using an ext2 partition and this software.?

http://www.fs-driver.org/index.html


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Robin Laing