Currently I have Slackware Linux, Debian Linux and Windows XP installed
on my computer. At the moment all of my mail-boxes are placed on a
separate ext2-partition, where all of the operating systems can read
(and write) mails with Mozilla-Mail.

I am actually quite satisfied with Mozilla-Mail, but I would like to
know if there are any other mail-programs, that can work under both
Linux and Windows. - There is also a security issue included in this
question: Under Linux I am the only one who can access the mailboxes,
but under Windows (running with ext2fsd:
http://ext2fsd.sourceforge.net/) everybody can access my mailboxes...

Jacob Tranholm wrote:

> Currently I have Slackware Linux, Debian Linux and Windows XP installed
> on my computer. At the moment all of my mail-boxes are placed on a
> separate ext2-partition, where all of the operating systems can read
> (and write) mails with Mozilla-Mail.
>
> I am actually quite satisfied with Mozilla-Mail, but I would like to
> know if there are any other mail-programs, that can work under both
> Linux and Windows. - There is also a security issue included in this
> question: Under Linux I am the only one who can access the mailboxes,
> but under Windows (running with ext2fsd:
> http://ext2fsd.sourceforge.net/) everybody can access my mailboxes...

An old 384 isn't that expencive, neither is a hub & some UTP cable.
Make your own little network and have a real mailserver (imap).

Just play along.


NimDrauG.

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NimDrauG skrev:
> Jacob Tranholm wrote:
>
>
>>Currently I have Slackware Linux, Debian Linux and Windows XP installed
>>on my computer. At the moment all of my mail-boxes are placed on a
>>separate ext2-partition, where all of the operating systems can read
>>(and write) mails with Mozilla-Mail.
>>
>>I am actually quite satisfied with Mozilla-Mail, but I would like to
>>know if there are any other mail-programs, that can work under both
>>Linux and Windows. - There is also a security issue included in this
>>question: Under Linux I am the only one who can access the mailboxes,
>>but under Windows (running with ext2fsd:
>>http://ext2fsd.sourceforge.net/) everybody can access my mailboxes...
>
>
> An old 384 isn't that expencive, neither is a hub & some UTP cable.
> Make your own little network and have a real mailserver (imap).
>
> Just play along.
>
>
> NimDrauG.
>

Actually it is not such a bad idea. I newer throw anything away, so I
might already have all the hardware. I have an old Pentium 133MHz with
48MB RAM, 6.4GB harddisk and a 10Mbit/s network-card - and I am already
using an integrated switch and router for my ADSL-connection. The
computer was working a couple of months ago, when my standard computer
had some problems (a defective harddisk, which was changed on the warranty).

Perhaps it is still overkill? I am not running any webpages or
ftp-servers, where I can use the computer. How much power does such a
computer in average use, lets say, 60W (without monitor and everything
else), that would become 526kWh in a year. - In Danish prices that would
become 762.70dkr = 121.30$. To be quite frank, this is within my
pricerange, but I also have to think of the effects on the environment...

Did you try putting them on the xp partition and making it NTFS? Then
you can limit access and mount the partition in your linux os's.

Jacob Tranholm wrote:

> Currently I have Slackware Linux, Debian Linux and Windows XP installed
> on my computer. At the moment all of my mail-boxes are placed on a
> separate ext2-partition, where all of the operating systems can read
> (and write) mails with Mozilla-Mail.
>
> I am actually quite satisfied with Mozilla-Mail, but I would like to
> know if there are any other mail-programs, that can work under both
> Linux and Windows. - There is also a security issue included in this
> question: Under Linux I am the only one who can access the mailboxes,
> but under Windows (running with ext2fsd:
> http://ext2fsd.sourceforge.net/) everybody can access my mailboxes...

> pricerange, but I also have to think of the effects on the environment...
What will be the effect on the environment when that old computer goes into
the landfill? Well maybe you won't toss it now, but you can't save
everything forever.

Nuz

Ynosone skrev:
> Did you try putting them on the xp partition and making it NTFS? Then
> you can limit access and mount the partition in your linux os's.
>

I have been having a lot of problems with write-access to NTFS under
Linux. The native NTFS write-access cannot create new files and Captive
NTFS is not stable at my computer. I use Windows once or twice a month,
so I will not move my e-mails to an unstable windows environment.

Menuz2 skrev:
>>pricerange, but I also have to think of the effects on the environment...
>
> What will be the effect on the environment when that old computer goes into
> the landfill? Well maybe you won't toss it now, but you can't save
> everything forever.
>
> Nuz
>
>

When my computer-components are totally dead, then they are going to a
recycling station, where they know how to handle electronic waste. I
would newer throw computer-components in the ordinary garbage...