On 12/20/05, Alan Dodd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tried using Thunderbird with Imap, but this was quite bulky, messages > get cached locally, and if there is a lot of mail, when the roaming user > changes workstation, he/she has to wait 'till the cache reloads (550M? 1G?). > (And for security reasons we must delete the cache anyway, and if we > don't use cache, the thing gets slow, and......) > I then installed a web interface mail client which works quite well, but > is not as complete as OE or Ms Outlook or Moz Thunderbird are. > I think if some guy from Mozilla would want to build an option to store > collected messages in a (centralized) database like Mysql, Thunderbird > would become a killer app for roaming profiles! (already tried giving > them a hint - no response yet)
Thunderbird's profiles can be stored wherever you want; we store them on people's networked home directories, to avoid bloating the roaming profile. There are several ways to configure this; we did it by setting up the Thunderbird shortcuts with a "-profile h:\Mozilla\Thunderbird" parameter to force the use of that profile. Josh Kelley -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
