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On Sunday, Oct 19, 2003, at 00:45 US/Pacific, Adrian Fisher wrote:

> Please note that I have 3 PC's (soon to be 4) which each have an email 
> account on them.  I now wish to integrate all the accounts to the same 
> computer as there are messages on each I do not wish to lose.  They 
> are all networked to each other and share a single net connection so 
> transfer is possible.  2 of the machines are Linux and this one is 
> WinXP but the new one will be FreeBSD and that is the one I want to 
> use most of all.  Any help would be appreciated.

Install an IMAP server, and configure the various clients to access it 
as a single consolidated mail account.  I use UW-IMAP, because of 
flexibility in mailbox configuration, but there are several popular 
ones.  Keep your mail in one place, accessable and updatable by each 
client.

KeS