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I have a small office with 3 computers running Linux Ubuntu. All the data are stored in a NAS drive (WD MyBook Live). I would like to - somehow - be able to access the email archives as well from each of these computers. For now, I don't really care if it would be possible for each user to access the email archives simultaneously (although that would be ideal). I have read about Portable Thunderbird over Wine as well as installing IMAP on the NAS drive. However, not only I haven't found a complete guide on how to do that but I am also not sure whether either of these solutions would work for me anyway.

user2295350
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  • I didn't downvote, but try not to mind them much. [SU] would have been a better fit for this question, but I really don't think you want to do what you're asking. In any case, don't be discouraged from asking, no better way to learn that picking people's brains. – Chris S Nov 03 '13 at 20:40

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  1. Dear $DEITY don't install Thunderbird on a NAS device... I can't even... no.
  2. Stop using the "Archiving" feature, it's a terrible leftover from MS Outlook that was ill-conceived from the start and still sucks today.
  3. IMAP, use it, like every other well informed geek in the world.
Chris S
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  • Why not using Archiving feature on Thunderbird? It works perfect and without problems for me. I am using it for more than 3 years now. Can you explain please? – user2295350 Nov 03 '13 at 15:58
  • The "Archiving" feature of e-mail clients does nothing but split your local repository of e-mail, creating more maintenance and overhead. If you want to keep e-mail, create a folder in your Inbox structure and file the e-mail. Use IMAP so the client doesn't have to keep a complete copy of e-mail, the e-mail is centrally stored on the e-mail server (where central backup and maintenance routines can be easily run). You say it works "perfect", but you have identified shortcomings, so I'm not sure I can agree with your definition of "perfect". – Chris S Nov 03 '13 at 20:24
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If you put everybody's user data on a shared drive, there is no mechanism for preventing conflicts when everyone accesses it simultaneously.

Install an IMAP server and store the shared mail there.

MikeyB
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  • Could you please evolve a bit more? How to do that? I do have programming knowledge and I'm good at all with sys admin tasks.. – user2295350 Nov 03 '13 at 15:56