OT: Thunderbird on two Windows boxes

[Jim]

Kurt Granroth wrote:
> vodhner at cox.net wrote:
>> I'm not interested in running my own IMAP server or anything along that line -- it will continue to be POP from Cox.
> 
> Just curious... but why not?  No Linux box running 24x7?  Too much
> perceived work?  Other?

Now I'm curious.  I have Slackware on my server.  When I set it up, I 
chose to install the IMAP server. All I had to do to get it to work is 
uncomment the following line in /etc/inetd.conf

imap2   stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd  imapd

Have fetchmail set up to check the POP account at Cox every few minutes 
and put everything in the mailbox for the account you'll be logging into 
on the machine running the IMAP server.  I used to do this on my server. 
  Fetchmail would check my mail at my ISP and put any it found into the 
mailbox for my user account on my server.  If I was at work and wanted 
to check my mail during lunch, I would ssh into my server at home and 
use Pine to check my mail.  At home I could use any mail client on 
either computer to check my mail.

Since you have a laptop; you could create a second mail account on it. 
Use that account to check your mail on the Cox POP server when your 
laptop isn't connected to your home network.  Just tell Thunderbird not 
to delete any messages it finds there.

Just my 2¢ worth.
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