Separate partitions for email and webbrowsing

[Jason Straight]

On Friday 03 February 2006 09:58, alex wrote:
> I have multiple versions of ubuntu installed and have a problem with
> maintaining continuity in email.
> Each ubuntu is configured somewhat differently except they all have the
> same version of Thunderbird with identical mailboxes but their contents
> are different so the threads are divided up betweem the multiple ubuntus.
>
> I was thinking of having a separate partition dedicated to Thunderbird
> and perhaps another for Firefox so that whatever email is received by
> one of the ubuntus will be available to the other ubuntus.....something
> like havimg a /home partition shared between two linuxes.
>
> Is this a harebrained idea or is it workable?   If it sounds OK, how
> would be done?
>
>
> elmo aka alex

I do something similar, what I do with my e-mail is to use Maildir via 
postfix/courier imap, fetmail brings all my mail to my local machine. So all 
my Maildir stuff is in my /home dir which I share between whichever boot I 
happen to be using at the time stable/devel.


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