Nick Rout wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 16:50:04 +1200 Roger Searle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My "vision" was some sort of imap server running locally (under both windows and linux) to which was fed email from my paradise account, checked every minute. From there point whichever client to that server.
That is certainly feasible. fetchmail will check any number of pop boxes and feed them into your local mail delivery system, so that part is easy. However there are practical problems with the rest viz:
1. you need to have a windows imap server and a linux imap server, both
of which treat the mailstore the same and which share the mail store.
Different imap servers use different mail storage formats.
2. The mail store would therefore need to be on a file system both servers can read and write to, which leaves basically only fat32. whilst fat32 may do the job, there is no user/group or read/write/execute structure on fat32, making sure that most linux imap software is not going to run well (or at all) on a fat32 partition.
3. I guess you could run a linux emulator when you are in windows, eg vmware, and run a linux imap server n there, accessing a decent filesystem and communicating with the windows imap clent over virtual networking. pretty much overkill though.
Seems like a really simple idea but on further thought could be considerably complicated.
I think so.
Could also be that this is an entirely new idea that no-one does.
better IMHO to spend $200 on an old headless machine, install a linux imap server on it and log in from your laptop over the network. cheaper than vmware :-)
Or set up an IPcop box and use for the imap server too? Can this be done successfully with a dial-up connection too, the modem being one of the "zones"? Perhaps that can be a question to ask you later. (broadband is not available where I live) I have some part boxes that I can combine into a suitable box one rainly weekend when I have nothing else to do...
[Cheapest option is the free copy of Virtual PC ms gave me a few weeks ago, which apparently will run linux (though it's not listed as supported on the case ;-) ) but I don't really see that as the answer.]
Roger
