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Thunderbird Portable one mail account with Linux and Windowswiwuwa - September 30, 2009 - 2:51am
Hi all, I want to manage my emails portable and be able to use the USB flash drive (stick) on Linux and Windows machines, while having only one "email database" on the stick. Is this possible? I think I can put a the Linux and the Windows version of Thunderbird Portable on the stick and start the appropriate version, but what is the best way to set up the email database? Thanks ( categories: )
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the reliable way
would be to have windows version of TBP on your stick, open it via WINE and use it that way.
I am using it so sometimes and it works, most addons work this way too, so this might keep you going.
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland
IMAP
Or use IMAP as your mail protocol, that way the mail stays on the mail server and you can use multiple email clients from different places, and still access all your email.
Once the Leenuks version is available...
Once the Leenuks version of TBP is available, you can start TBP from a shell script that also will create a symbolic link from the data directory of the Leenuks version to the data directory of the Windoze version. This will -- for lack of a better analogy -- _deceive_ the Leenuks TBP into thinking the data files of the Windoze version are its own.
When I set up TB on my OpenSUSE laptop, I straight-up copied the data files to it from the Windoze version on my desktop PC. They appear to be 100% compatible so, since only one TBP will be active at any time (and presuming the Leenuks TBP operates the same way), it appears possible that both can use the single set of data files.