[ponami]

I have 2 macs connected on a local network and I want one computer to receive mail as normal and I want to be able to view my email on the 2nd computer. How do I do this with the mail.app.
I could do this with eudora by putting an alias from the computer which had the mailboxes.
Thanks,
Grant.

[OreoCookie]

Set up one Mac as a local mail server (preferentially the desktop system, if one of them is an iBook or a PowerBook).

There is a good tutorial at stepwise.com, here's the link: http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/Wor...art.index.html

[Xeo]

You can do it the same way as you did with Eudora except don't use Aliases, use symbolic links.

On the 2nd machine, do the following:

1) Set up the e-mail account(s) the same way you did on the first computer and quit Mail.
2) Remove ~/Library/Mail (note: this will delete all mail on that computer)
3) Mount the 1st computer using AppleShare
4) Create a symbolic link to the Mail directory on the remote computer using Terminal:

% ln -s /Volumes/Remote-Computer/Users/remote-username/Library/Mail ~/Library/Mail

That's all there is to it. I used to do this when I POP'd my e-mail. Now I use IMAP so I have no need of it anymore. You'll want to make sure you mount the remote computer before opening Mail, of course (but I'm sure you're used to this from your Eudora days)

[ponami]

Thanks for the replies, I tried:
% ln -s /Volumes/Remote-Computer/Users/remote-username/Library/Mail ~/Library/Mail

But I get "too many arguments" come back
I changed "Remote-Computer" to the main mac (G4 powermac) and remote user
Sorry if their is simple fix for this I'm not use to using the terminal.

[ponami]

I got it to work by drag 'n' dropping the mail folders into the Terminal window.
Thanks for the help.
Grant.

[LeeG]

I tried this, and the links worked, but for some reason, my inbox shows up as empty on the 2nd mac. My "on this mac" stuff has extra folders too (with .mac in parentheses), Anyway, it got me nervous enought that I might erase all my mail, so I stopped using it.

But it got me thinking...If the digital hub is the way, and people are starting to buy the 'second computer' and set up home networks, and rendezvous is gonna make this all happen fast on the mac - shouldn't Apple implement a rendezvous recognition system in mail, so you can "Sign on" to your mail from any computer on your local (home) network - seems easy enough, and why should email be tethered to one terminal - welcome to the digital hub...

Lee
(I know this is all a great argument for using IMAP mailboxes - not an issue they are portable by nature, but I am forced to use some pop accounts).

[cpac]

You could always try having your POP3 mail forwarded to your IMAP account (and then using rules to sort it back out)

[TC]

Originally posted by ponami:
Thanks for the replies, I tried:
% ln -s /Volumes/Remote-Computer/Users/remote-username/Library/Mail ~/Library/Mail

But I get "too many arguments" come back
I changed "Remote-Computer" to the main mac (G4 powermac) and remote user
Sorry if their is simple fix for this I'm not use to using the terminal.

The joys of a command line.
Because your computer name has a space in it you need to quote the path, like this:

ln -s "/Volumes/G4 powermac/Users/remote-username/Library/Mail" ~/Library/Mail

Replace remote-username with the name of the user account on the remote computer.