From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.3+) Gecko/20010907 BuildID: 2001090703 Mozilla Mail stores OS-specific paths to profile data files within user profiles. It is therefore not possible to, for example, use SMB to access a Mozilla profile on a Linux machine from a Windows box. With the aim of Mozilla Mail being to create a cross-platform mail client, this limitation should be eliminated. Can't Mozilla just store a relative path instead of an absolute one? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set up a Windows and Linux box. Run Samba on the Linux box and set up an SMB share to ~you/.mozilla 2. Run mozilla -profilemanager on the Windows box. Tell Mozilla to look in your Linux box's share for your new profile data. 3. Run Mozilla and start Mail on the Windows box. Actual Results: You can see your Mail accounts, but the messages do not appear in them, because Mozilla is trying to look in "C:\windows\mozilla\profiles\you" even though you're on a Linux box! :) Expected Results: Mozilla should load the messages as well as the account and server names, of course...

Duplicate of "Use relative pathnames for profile directories and profile-relative data" *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 12911 ***

Verified Duplicate.