Hi
Sorry I lost the original mail.
You can try this hack. Use netscape on windows and linux. Put netscape mails on a FAT
partition and
link the linux netscape mail dir in FAT partition at appropriate place.
Assuming the both netscape use same formats. You need to check the versions first.
Good Luck...
Shridhar
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> Vibhu Rishi [Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 09:47:40PM +0530]:
>
> > I have all my mails on the Windows partition, while I am now working
> > under Linux . Whenever I need to send maisl , I need to boot into
> > Windows, and then write my mails. This is really frustrating. Can anyone
> > of you tell me how to over-come this problem ?
>
> This is a rather regular problem ... so let me see what I've found out (but never
>tried so far)
>
> > on windows I have Outlook express as the mail client & on Linux I am
> > forced to use Netscape -- can you tell me a better e-mail client &
> > web-browser than Netscape ?
>
> I think there are several mail clients (sylpheed, mulberry and adora come to
> mind) which are cross-platform. There are apps which convert your OE folders
> to standard unix MBOX format - search freshmeat .. (and btw, sylpheed uses MH
> folders, but otherwise looks _exactly_ like outlook express interface-wise)
>
> Mutt can be compiled on windows using the cygnus libraries at
> http://www.cygwin.com and there's a win32 port of vim at http://www.vim.org :)
>
> And, if you are masochistic (like Raju and a few other folks) there's always
> VM/Gnus under emacs - you get both 'doze and unix versions of this. If you
> switch to mutt or VM/Gnus, you dont need to switch back and forth between mail
> clients at all :)
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