Craig, I'd be interested in this same setup for my home network.  Only problem is I don't know where to start other than I have the machine (Celeron 350) that can be the server.  Will any distribution do as well as another in this?  I have the iso's for Mandrake 9.1 and RH 9.0 along with some other older distributions.  This sounds like it will also solve the problem of losing my mail every time I switch email clients.


-----Original Message-----
From: Craig White [mailto:craigwhite@azapple.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 9:50 AM
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: Multiple OSes, 1 Mozilla profile?


This may work but I see nothing but trouble down this path - it may work
but it is likely to explode.

I would heavily recommend the type of thing that I am doing...I have a
box that is just a server - running linux of course. It has a
substantial procmail set of rules to divide the incoming mail and put it
into my personal directory into folders. I used to have it accepting
email for my domain but when I switched to Cox Home account, I had to
switch to retrieving email via fetchmail.

I then use imap from any computer on my network whether it be Macintosh,
Windows or Linux and have access to all the email.

As for the address book, I sync my palm phone (Kyocera 7135) to each
computer.

I also use this server as my central file repository so I have access to
all my files from all the computers as well as a print server. This
allows me to stupidly destroy the OS on any workstation without worrying
about my data.

Craig

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