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Just wanted to know if someone here found a way to hook up Netscape
Messenger (and the whole Netscape apps) so that I could read the same
mails, have same bookmarks, etc for both linux and win.

Please reply also by mail if possible.

Regards
rock

First, start Messenger in the OS in which you have the larger mail
folders. Organize the folders and sub folders structure and then assign
the "Local Mail Directory" and "Newsgroups Directory" (menu bar 'Edit/
Preferences/Mail & Newsgroups' option) to a directory in a FAT volume
that can be viewed from both Linux and Windows.

Log out, shutdown and restart in the other operating system.

Start Messenger. If you have some unique messages here that you want
to keep, create a new, temporary mail folder and move all messages
into it.
Be sure that "Local Mail Directory" and "Newsgroups Directory" in the
Preferences setup points to different folders than the ones you have
entered when you were logged in the other OS; then delete all
personal mail folders (except the temporary one).
Close and restart Communicator.

Now, set the "Local Mail Directory" and "Newsgroups Directory" to
the same drive/folder you have used in the other OS.
Finally, create your personal folders again, with the same names
(case sensitive) you have used in the other OS.

You can now move the messages in the temporary folder to their
definitive personal folders and delete the temporary one.

From now onwards, every time you start Messenger in each OS, the
summary files for each mail folders will be updated automatically.

In Windows everything works OK, but in Linux there is a minor flaw:
The summary files for the mail folders in the windows version (named
*.snm) are shown in Linux as invalid mail folders. I haven't found a
way to fix this yet. Obviously, you shouldn't delete this invalid
folders in Linux because this will destroy the summary files for the
windows OS. Despite of this, everything will work OK.

Regarding the bookmarks, they are stored in a html file called
'bookmark.htm' in windows and 'bookmarks.html' in Linux. The only way
I've found to share bookmarks is to overwrite the older one with the
contents of the newer one and rename them accordingly.

Hope this will help you.
Fabian.

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  Fabian G. Picca
  Cordoba, Argentina

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