Cross platform email

sjreilly · 10-26-2007, 05:01 AM

Hi,
I've got three PC's running XP, FC4 and kubuntu 7.10.
I use Thunderbird on the XP box but the mail files reside on the FC4 box samba'd to XP.
The FC4 box is a web server.
Can someone give me ideas of a web-based email prog that I can install on the FC4 web server which would allow me to use the Thunderbird email files.
Thus allowing me to send/receive mail from all three machines.

I've tried installing Thunderbird on all three accessing the same files but it seemed to get VERY messy.
TIA,
Steve

wolfperkins · 10-26-2007, 05:28 AM

You could install/configure an imap mail server on your FC4 box and configure Thunderbird to use the imap connector to manage the mailbox from all three locations. I don't think you can configure multiple Thunderbird instances against the same set of "local files".

sjreilly · 10-26-2007, 05:37 AM

I use Squirrelmail to web-view emails on the FC4 box before they get downloaded by Thunderbird.
Is that what you mean?

Poetics · 10-27-2007, 01:53 AM

Squirrelmail is an IMAP client. IMAP merely means that what you see on-screen is the same as exists on your server (in a very simple sense).

If you have an IMAP server set up (either at your end or at your ISPs), and all the mail clients set to use IMAP, you will see every email in the exact same folder, on every machine. Take a quick look around the web for 'imap' and I'm sure you'll get some great documentation.

sjreilly · 10-30-2007, 06:17 AM

If I have an IMAP server set up (I have dovecot installed and running) how do I send mail from squirrelmail so that it appears to come from my actual ISP mail account rather than from my home server.
I have a free dyndns account so I don't have a valid MX record.

Steve

wolfperkins · 10-31-2007, 08:11 AM

What it appears to come from is actually configurable in the account settings of the mail client. See the "reply to" field in your account setup.