Best way to share Thunderbird Profiles across multiple machines.

[JH - CyaniCs.com]

What I would recommend, is that you set up a front end email server, 
which will gather emails from your ISP and hold them locally for 
delivery to client connections via IMAP.

With IMAP, each client machine (thunderbird) can access the same data 
directories on the email server (your ubuntu server, for example.) The 
plugin's are a different beast, but you don't need constant access to 
the plug in files. I would suggest staying away from sharing a single 
profile across multiple machines, and instead have different profiles 
for each machine, while sharing one universal email-archive on a central 
server.

Look into courier for the local email server. I haven't personally setup 
a pop3 checker using it, but I am sure it is possible. Afterall M$ does 
it in exchange 2k3.

Young wrote:
> cyanics at xmission.com wrote:
>   
>> what portion of the profile are you interested in sharing? plugin's? or 
>> basically having access to one download archive for emails, across lots 
>> of computers?
>>
>>     
> Plugins, No. I don't use any now, and don't think the trouble of 
> multiple installations would be that big a headache for me.
>
> Having one archive for emails, across multiple (3 for now) computers? Yes.
>
> Being able to check/download POP3 mail from any of the machines and have 
> it go into one archive? Yes!
>
> Having more than one machine in use with Thunderbird open and active. 
> Yes! Just not in the same email message. I'm thinking this should be 
> something like record locking on a database.
>
> If Thunderbird can't do this, is there another email client that can?
>
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