From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 22 13:13:14 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7E84350 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:13:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) Received: from nm24-vm8.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com (nm24-vm8.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com [212.82.109.199]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0187A2ED for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:13:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.82.105.246] by nm24.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 22 Jan 2013 13:13:12 -0000 Received: from [217.146.189.101] by tm18.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 22 Jan 2013 13:13:11 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp117.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 22 Jan 2013 13:13:11 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=rocketmail.com; s=s1024; t=1358860391; bh=UEAXlkP3whRGweYiPCuHbJF7sdZB7rmJATLcdp+mghc=; h=X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:Received:Content-Type:To:Subject:References:Date:MIME-Version:Content-Transfer-Encoding:From:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:User-Agent; b=GGhrWq9A1B0SrRWcL3aMXLWz9rqw0yDpCVfEFmMqudT0d4Nw0HDivi7KKk7/7CAt4/1lNNo4dII+TtOwrxGaAlbK1FuoRZKsSEVPtWT8JAbaYhNu+gTthXkewyqrhtuccqSyN0oDxjXDJ3EFEDIQkGWVDF64/uAXZtUxTRlpo+8= X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 854602.52996.bm@smtp117.mail.ird.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-5 X-YMail-OSG: atMNnWcVM1kpXyk7oRmJix7MWuXBx9uO5wMiKgtM361ubfl 9XasUnd6hFLffxiK_cLkGZrKuoe4r02PcKrmbA1SG.XrPPJ..8T4wow1B6gK PCTu7csw54JpMYWLrnyrMOEklt8SHAL7Y4zQ4zcKa8UUkIGBLrNHrYFQ73mg AuIagJJoqAFBdeQ52gz3cs4V5jIA6rtuxaTzvrOb.6OEP82GmlLJy2gpnL0n 2vzy4XzyeYAfNIZvZt2CN8WkhbSS.PvR6xQHzwoGB3qsk7mSbSGaiEAGuJga aRHreePxxQQPNJKFhOllgt6luDTnVVdY2VJlSm0QrnwAqf1qBifcwdizeJep t9vy8AZh97OWkqL2a2q2Fo4Mscl3rk0PSfmxoJ5nH2biSqb9MqSOP9UJr3Lt VHIfd1hzJrp81qsJcaR4jgL1eXSS510mufSSfG8rZyrbYQd_fXaaBbb2mZOC 6nto0Z0iQGzTG1X1fAIeGug-- X-Yahoo-SMTP: BeMCPs2swBABTJ3kAeEiC_hE0mz8jRexLddJfD8pI2j32fOacjBmXg-- Received: from freebsd (ralf.mardorf@92.231.4.91 with login) by smtp117.mail.ird.yahoo.com with SMTP; 22 Jan 2013 05:13:11 -0800 PST Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD References: <1358811229.2031.60.camel@precise> <50FE670A.9040500@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:13:11 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Ralf Mardorf" Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <50FE670A.9040500@gmail.com> User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.12 (FreeBSD) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:13:14 -0000 On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:16:42 +0100, Joshua Isom wrote: > It looks like to me you're asking for long term trouble. You're using > multiple versions, so in the future there could be changes that could > corrupt your mail. Why not just use an IMAP server instead? It's what > I do, so my mail's shared between FreeBSD, Windows, and Android. I'm doing it for a long time and I only link to the mail directory. I experienced IMAP as a PITA, not only that there would be the need to set up IMAP for each install, I only have one computer, it did cause incompatibilities, not seldom thousands of mails get fetched several times. Sync can cause tons of issues. Keeping mails on the servers of the two providers I'm using (Alice and Rocketmail) is no option. I will fetch emails and delete them on their servers. The only issue with sharing the GNOME email folder is, that GNOME 3 is a broken DE and Evolution 3.6 is buggy, but this also is an issue, if I don't share the email folder. Unfortunately the mail dir format can't be shared with other mail dir MUAs. YMMV! Regards, Ralf