Jonathan N. Little wrote:
It can be done but it is a very bad idea, because you can really screw
things up if you switch profiles while the former profile still has
SeaMonkey running. A far better idea to share an email account with more
than one user is to use IMAP and then different profiles would have
access via a server to the same mail.
Firefox and Thunderbird have the same issues. It's really not a good
idea to try to share a profile. Even if you've done it safely up until
now, it's still a disaster waiting to happen.
There's several better work-arounds:
1) Working from a common Windows user ID, as suggested elsewhere in this
discussion;
2) If the server supports it, using IMAP, and where all your mail is
stored on the server (and mirrored locally if desired).
3) I haven't played with it, but the Mozilla Sync tool might be usable.
4) If you're determined to stay with POP, there are ways of having
multiple users share the same mailbox, although it takes some tinkering
to do that. Primarily, that's a matter of adjusting mail retention
settings (e.g., setting mail to not be deleted from the server
immediately after download, typically for something like 15 or 30 days).
When I've done this in the past, I find it also useful to add BCC: to
myself, so that each profile access has copies of sent messages copied
to the inbox. Plus, for the purposes of long-term storage, it generally
helps if you designate one profile or the other as the Primary profile,
and the other(s) as Secondary. That's not an official designation, just
something you determine yourself.
One additional twist -- for me, since I have several mail accounts, and
I do the majority of my work from a specific profile on a specific
machine, I do prefer POP, and I consider that to be my primary.
However, I do mail access from a number extra points, including
Thunderbird on my primary working machine, and Seamonkey, Thunderbird or
web mail on other machines. In those other profiles, I use IMAP
(because the servers support that), and in each instance, I tweak the
client so that copies of sent mail are saved not to the Sent Mail
folder, but to the Inbox. Additionally, on my primary POP client, I set
retention for 15 days.
With that setup, I have read access to virtually anything current, no
matter which machine or client I'm using, and anything that I write on a
secondary client will always be the inbox, where the primary POP client
will download (and I can subsequently file in my archives).
However, if you're in the process of moving to a new computer, now is a
really good time to get away from trying to share a profile. Just
because it's technically possible (and that you've done it in the past),
doesn't mean that you should continue doing it.
Smith
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