Solution: A LINUX box running FETCHMAIL on behalf of your users to dump received mail into local shared directories of CYRUS imap server. From there, you can happily read/share your mails using any imap aware client. (ie MOZILLA)
Easy ;) Believe me. But don't expect a 5 min work. :)) Imran Adrian Redmond wrote: > I am hoping that someone else has run into - and solved - this issue. > > For many years our company has used Netscape (until recently 4.79) > messenger for our email. We have 10-15 workstations on a peer-to-peer > network (Windows 2K + a couple of W98SE machines) - of which about 5 > workstations access mail regularly throughout the day. Our network has > a ADSL router which also functions as DHCP server allocating IP > addresses to all workstations. One of the workstations is dedicated as > a data server, with a RAID1 storage for all data, including mail. Mail > is downloaded over the ADSL by the clients, all of which are set to > store and read their mail from the network drive. This allows sharimng > of all mail over the network, with the exception that no two users > could access the same folder at the same time - the second to attempt > doing so would simply get a "no access" message and would either wait > or shout for the other user to vacate that folder.
