KMail from many platforms

David McGlone d.mcglone at att.net
Fri Dec 7 03:27:33 UTC 2007


On Thursday 06 December 2007 1:39:40 pm Derek Broughton wrote:
> Sylviane et Perry White wrote:
> >> It sounds like he's dual booting, since he says it's on the same
> >> machine, so why not just share /home with SuSEe and kubuntu.
> >
> > That is another question I wanted to ask on the list, I can figure out
> > good reasons to do that but I don't know what are the cons.
>
> The big con is that it's unlikely both distros are every running exactly
> the same version of KDE.  If one updates something config file with a value
> not backwards compatible with the older version, you could be in trouble.

That is true. You do have to be careful.

> Pointing ~/Mail to the same location should be practically harmlesss :-)
> I'd still feel safer letting an IMAP server do that.

I agree. 


-- 
David M.




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