Can Linux & Windows Thunderbird use same data dir?

[miamicanes]

If I have my hard drive partitioned into a NTFS partition with XP Pro, an EXT-3 partition with Ubuntu 7.04, and a 2-gig swap partition, is it safe to configure Thunderbird on the Linux side to use the same data directories as the Windows side on XP's NTFS partition? Or are there a few subtle differences between the Win32 and Linux versions of Thunderbird that would cause them to corrupt data files created by the other version?

[thedondj]

I'm not sure whether it's supported and I don't know enough about Thunderbird to know whether it's 100% safe, but I have my dual boot system sharing a directory between the two OS's and have had no problems.

[abhishek456]

i don't have thunderbird on my system.But i had tried to use windows firefox profile folder in linux and it worked(most of the thinks worked like i bookmarks,sessions but hadn't checked password reminder)and i think it would also work with thunderbird.

but you need to edit profile.ini file a little before use can do this