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Tip for sharing mail with thunderbird
Is there any known incompatabilities with Thunderbird (apart from extensions)?
I modified the profile.ini file to point to the location where I stored my thunderbird mail, and it read everything directly, but told me it was disabling my extensions.
Thunderbird still saw the extensions as enabled, and as far as I could tell (using a file compare program), the backup copy I made before pointing postbox at my thunderbird directory was identical with the set after Postbox and thunderbird had read them.
Right now I'm using both just to see which one I prefer
I modified the profile.ini file to point to the location where I stored my thunderbird mail, and it read everything directly, but told me it was disabling my extensions.
Thunderbird still saw the extensions as enabled, and as far as I could tell (using a file compare program), the backup copy I made before pointing postbox at my thunderbird directory was identical with the set after Postbox and thunderbird had read them.
Right now I'm using both just to see which one I prefer
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Inappropriate?Hi David,
I can't recommend strongly enough that this is *BAD* idea. By pointing both of these programs to the same profile you are going to be asking for lots of trouble - the worst of which will be mail folder corruption that could cause you to lose any local or pop3 mail account data caused by two programs attempting to access the same folders.
I'd suggest fixing that ASAP before something really bad happens.
Cheers,
-Scott -
Inappropriate?Well, for the present I'm only using Postbox. Of course I have a backup of the mail, and a backup of that, and a backup of the backup of the backup... :P
I have the mail on an encrypted disk, and a copy on an encrypted USB stick for the laptop, and synchronize between them to keep things up to date. I map the disk with the mail to Y: drive, and thunderbird allows me to change the profile.ini to point absolutely to that address, so either my desktop, laptop, VMWare backup of my desktop can be used to access the same mail from the same drive (or backup drive). Postbox allows the same functionality, which is good.
This way, if the laptop is stolen, the mail and other data is on an encrypted USB stick, and if that gets lost, well it was encrypted and I have a backup at home.
I don't like the idea of mail or other data being held on 1 disk inside 1 machine, because what happens when that dies (as they do).
Since Postbox is based on Thunderbird, underneath the hood they both support the unix format mailbox, and you can find all sorts of tips about copying unix format mailboxes between various mail programs - thunderbird, pegasus, evolution, eudora. I know they work because I've used all these mail programs at some stage in the past, and moved the mailboxes as needed to the new program.
If Postbox really does crud up my mail, I can copy the backup for use with thunderbird again, or import it into pegasus, or eudora, or evolution. And you'll hear about it if it does.
thanks for your concern -
Inappropriate?ok just so you are warned :).
good luck!
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