William Lefkovics [MVP] wrote:

Many email clients on Linux are not meant to access their databases over a
network either.


That's correct. In fact I can't think of ANY email clients that are designed
to access databases over a network. What I can do, and what the OP can do,
is to set up a mail server. I have free mail servers in Linux, and there is
at LEAST one free one for Windows.

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Gordon Burgess-Parker
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