Is it possible to Install Mozilla 1.3 for two (or more) users to share one email definition?
My wife and I share one computer with one email account. I would like to have two different Win XP Pro users share the same email inbox and file folders.
Garry
You will in general have better luck with this type of question on netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news.
If you view the settings on your email account you will see a 'Server Settings' area. At the bottom of that panel you should see a place where you can set the Local Directory. If you set this to a shared drive all of the email will go to that shared drive.
The same is true for the Local Folders area. Whether or not you need to move this one or not depends on how you use the mail client. You still have to setup both machines manually to point to the mapped drive.
There is a further step that is theoretically possible since both of you are using XP machines. It involves finding your profile directory (not sure where it is on Windows) and editing the prefs.js file to move your entire mail profile to the mapped drive. This includes everything, not just where the email lives.
This will ONLY work if you have the network drive mounted on both machines with the same absolute pathname. I have not been successful at doing this, but then I wanted to mount the same email to both a Linux and a Windows 2000 partition, and the absolute pathnames are perforce different. So you're on your own with this one.
The first part, though, just changing the mailbox settings so that the email lives on a network drive, does work. I can poll my email from either my Linux partition or my Windows 2000 partition. These aren't running at the same time, though. There may be problems if you both try to mount them at the same time. I don't know, be careful.
mma
