OT: Thunderbird on two Windows boxes

[vodhner at cox.net]

My wife has been using Thunderbird for her email on her XP desktop.

Now she also has a Vista laptop, mainly for use in the living room.  She will have file sharing with her desktop.

I know I can configure the laptop's copy of Thunderbird to not delete downloaded messages, but that doesn't give the laptop access to email that is stored on her desktop.

On my own dual-boot machine, I share my mailbox (on a FAT32 drive) between XP and Linux.  That works OK.  So if I left her mailbox on the desktop I suppose I could tweak Thunderbird on the laptop so that it shared the desktop's mail folders, remotely.  I'm not sure if she'd have to shut down Thunderbird on one box in order to open it on the other, whether Windows might refuse simultaneous access.

I'm not interested in running my own IMAP server or anything along that line -- it will continue to be POP from Cox.

Would that be the way to do it?  Comments?

Thanks,

Vic