OT: CrossPlatform email client?

[Paul Thomas]

On 11/11/2003 19:24 Bryan Anderson wrote:
> 
> Hi - this seems a fairly newbie friendly place and I got a lot
> of good help from some people here with my mp3 problem, so maybe
> someone will have an answer to this one....
> 
> I really, really want to me rid of MS......but there are a few
> things that I need to dual-boot for, for a while. I *know* that
> the Gimp is supposed to be as good as many Windows graphics
> packages but I know the Windows ones inside out and use my PC
> to make money. Ditto for Dreamweaver.
> 
> Because of these two apps (mainly) I find that I spend most of
> the day in Windows and then the evening in Linux (mostly email,
> usenet, etc). However I am getting fed up of trying to organise
> email in a dual-boot system. Receiving email into either is
> easy enough (just leave on the server in Linux, delete from
> server in Win) but if I then reply to something when in one OS,
> my reply won't appear in the second, etc.
> 
> Is there a (decent) email client that works with a shared mail
> dir, on a fat32 drive, and has a Windows and a Linux client. It
> needs:
> 
> to be easy to set up/install (complete newbie!)
> multiple account facilities (both pop and smtp)
> decent filtering, rules and folders setup
> 
> Basically I'm after The Bat! or maybe Eudora, that will work
> for both OS's......

Alternatively, run an *nix email client under cygwin when in 'doze and 
natively under Linux. Or you might be lucky enough to get your win email 
client to run under Wine.

Another (of many) possibility would be to set up Linux on an old PC, use 
that to get your mail using fetchmail and then use IMAP from your main PC.

HTH

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