Multiple OSes, 1 Mozilla profile?

Boy - I really hate top posting but I just can't put my reply on the
bottom on this one.

I wouldn't necessarily recommend roaming profiles as Liberty is
suggesting - at least not right away because there are a lot of
considerations for using roaming profiles that I'm not gonna start
getting into here.

This is an excellent project for learning all the system administration
disciplines and it puts an older box to great use.

I should probably write something up definitively but I don't have the
time at the moment. Anyway...

Start with any distro that you feel comfortable with. GUI/Xwindows
should be unnecessary - it isn't needed for a server and if you need the
crutches of GUI type admin software, learn to love webmin.

Make sure that you install an imap daemon, create the user(s) &
passwords. Start the imap daemon.

On the email client on your computer(s) - (one computer at a time), set
it up to use this server as your server, using imap (NOT POP3).

Transfer your email to the server by dragging it over
(Netscape/Mozilla/Evolution/Kmail/???

On your server, you should set up fetchmail to retrieve your email
manually until you get it working, then on a scheduled basis.

Anyway, for shared mail services your server should have the following
installed on it.

- fetchmail
- procmail
- imap

- a reliable hard drive and a fast (100TX) NIC card are heavily
recommended.

other niceties:
- webmin (administration)
- ssh (administration)
- mirrored hard drive (software mirrors are good too)

other services:
- dns (allows you to have mini-domain name resolution)
- dhcp (issues TCP/IP configuration to computers automatically)
- samba (windows file & print services)
- netatalk (Macintosh file & print services)
- lpd shared printer setups

Good luck
Craig

On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 14:00, Liberty Young wrote:
> Tom,
> I've just got doing the same thing. procmail filters the various
> accounts into the right directories, and using IMAP/SSL, i can safely
> check my email from work.
>
> I'd also suggest setting up Samba, and using roaming profiles. Just a
> thought.
>
> On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 09:59, Tom Achtenberg wrote:
> > 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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