Best way to share Thunderbird Profiles across multiple machines.

[damian]

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'm very interested in this. I've never heard of it before.

I'm still using POP email because I like having all of my emails on my 
machine rather than on some third party computer. I also want to work 
with my emails when I'm travelling on my laptop and not online so I am 
currently synchronising profiles over several computers using unison.

This works quire well, but is a bit of a pain if I just want to send a 
quick email from one machine but have to synchronise everything first!

How easy is this to set up? I considered myself a geek when I was a 
windows user. Now I feel quite lacking in geekness since I moved over to 
Linux and I really don't want to mess up all my email.

What would be the best/easiest program to use from the ones you have 
mentioned?

Cheers
Damian
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