Re: Dual User Install

Garry Spear wrote:
> Is it possible to Install Mozilla 1.3 for two (or more) users to share 
> one email definition?
> 
> My wife and I share one computer with one email account.  I would like 
> to have two different Win XP Pro users share the same email inbox and 
> file folders.
> 
> Garry

You will in general have better luck with this type of question on 
netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news.

If you view the settings on your email account you will see a 'Server 
Settings' area.  At the bottom of that panel you should see a place 
where you can set the Local Directory.  If you set this to a shared 
drive all of the email will go to that shared drive.

The same is true for the Local Folders area.  Whether or not you need to 
move this one or not depends on how you use the mail client.  You still 
have to setup both machines manually to point to the mapped drive.

There is a further step that is theoretically possible since both of you 
are using XP machines.  It involves finding your profile directory (not 
sure where it is on Windows) and editing the prefs.js file to move your 
entire mail profile to the mapped drive.  This includes everything, not 
just where the email lives.

This will ONLY work if you have the network drive mounted on both 
machines with the same absolute pathname.  I have not been successful at 
doing this, but then I wanted to mount the same email to both a Linux 
and a Windows 2000 partition, and the absolute pathnames are perforce 
different.  So you're on your own with this one.

The first part, though, just changing the mailbox settings so that the 
email lives on a network drive, does work.  I can poll my email from 
either my Linux partition or my Windows 2000 partition.  These aren't 
running at the same time, though.  There may be problems if you both try 
to mount them at the same time.  I don't know, be careful.

mma