At 10:59 PM -0400 9/6/2009, Dan wrote: >At 7:10 PM -0700 9/6/2009, Bill Spencer wrote: >>but I have this notion that there's a way to get Mail to load >>everything from a remote machine, something about telling it to go >>to the library of the other machine rather than using the local >>library. > >I know you can replace ~/Library/Mail/ with a symlink, and Mail will >follow that. (that's how one puts thy mails onto an encrypted disk >image). > >I donno if you can make that symlink point to something over afp. >Probably not; afp isn't that reliable anyway.
Just tried it -- it seems to want to work, but it's not reliable. The afp protocols don't respond exactly like regular file accessing, and Mail doesn't make allowances for network lag, time-outs etc. >I know that Dropbox will do it. You put a symlink to the mail >directory in each machine's Dropbox folder. Then Dropbox will keep >the two machines sync'd. The new vers of Dropbox will even do the >sync directly across your LAN instead of via Amazon's S3 storage >servers. Dropbox handles everything very nicely. But you need to keep in mind that running Mail on both machines at the same time, pointed into the same folders, can fark the index -- Dropbox keeps everything synchronized perfectly. A 2 GB Dropbox account is free. If both machines involved are on the same LAN, then new Dropbox (vers 0.7 and newer) will sync directly across your LAN. Speeds things up a lot. The down-side - everything is also stored encrypted on Amazon's S3 cloud. You may or may not find this to be acceptable for your emails. <http://getdropbox.com/> If the Amazon involvement bugs you, then a direct sync tool might be better. I can't recommend any tho - I'm so used to using Dropbox I see it as the higher/better solution these days. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
