Best way to share Thunderbird Profiles across multiple machines.

[Young]

Albert Charron wrote:
> 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?
>>
>>   
> I would definitely recommend using a mail server for this... On one of 
> your Ubuntu machine, setup courrier-imap or dovecot and fetchmail...
> 
> That's the way I'm doing it for years now and I haven't got any problems...
> 
> Basically, fetchmail will get the e-mails from your ISP (pop3) and your 
> thunderbirds will connect to your imap server
> 
I just did a quick read on dovecot to see what it is. It seems to be 
overkill for my needs. But, I didn't see what the user inerface would 
be. Is it a browser interface?

Mark