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Re: [LUG] Sharing Thunderbird Mint/Windows 7

 

On Sun, 23 Feb 2014 11:46:19 +0000, Julian Hall <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> As I've mentioned a few times, I am dual-booting Windows 7 and Mint 16. 

> I have Thunderbird shared by the simple method of pointing both 
> installations to the same location for the mail folders.  I never leave 
> the folders pointed to the default location on the basis it could get 
> inadvertently wiped during a reinstall, so the setup at present is:
> 
> dev/sda5 (Windows C:) NTFS - Windows install of Thunderbird
> dev/sda6 (Windows Data D:) NTFS : - Location of shared Mail folder
> dev/sda8 (Linux /):  Mint 6 install root
> 
> The problem I have is that if I receive a mail in Linux and then 
> subsequently look at it in Windows there is no problem - sometimes 
> necessary if I receive a mail about a problem I have in Windows. However

> any mail I received in Windows prior to installing Linux is either 
> corrupted or blank when viewed in Linux.
> 
> Any ideas why please?
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Julian

What version of Thunderbird are you running on Mint and what version are
you running on Linux?

(Is that right, you're running Mint 6?!?)

Rob


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