Where does Mozilla put its mail?

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Dec 22, 2004, A. Khattri wrote:
>On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Bill Campbell wrote:
>
>> My preference is to leave the mail on the server, using IMAP to organize it
>> into appropriate folders.  This allows me to access my mail from multiple
>> systems, not just one desktop.
>
>Yes this is great if you have infinite mailbox quota ;-)

Mailbox quota shouldn't be a problem if you're running *nix as the
mailbaxes can be on your own machine.  We use courier-imap on our servers
which stores the mail in the user's $HOME directory where it's accessible
directly with mutt (as I'm doing now), or via IMAP or through our webmail
servers.  This should work on any broadband connected system with
appropriate port forwarding through a NAT firewall.  One might have to run
a webmail server on some port other than port 80 as many broadband
providers block incoming port 80 traffic on residential accounts, largely
in response to Code Red and Nimda.

Other advantages:
   + Servers also tend to be backed up more frequently than desktop
     machines.

   + Setting up new desktop machines doesn't require any changes to the e-
     mail storage.

   + E-Mail is accessbile by a variety of mail clients, not just the one
     maintaining the local storage.

Bill
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