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nGerrit

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From: Aachen [GER]

Registered: 2006-09-27

Posts: 36

claws-mail default mail dir

Hi,
how do i change the default mail directory in claws-mail? He creates directories directly in my home dir. i couln't find any information on how to configure it to put it in .mail for example..

do you know how to do it?

ngerrit

G_Syme

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Registered: 2007-01-04

Posts: 83

Re: claws-mail default mail dir

Yo nGerrit,

I've had the same problem and didn't find any information how to place the mail folder into a directory other than the home dir. But you can at least specify the mail folder's name.
If you add a new mailbox just type in ".mail" and claws-mail puts your mail into ".mail". It seems that it doesn't distinguish between mailbox name and mailbox path. But you cannot e.g. put your mail into ~/really/long/path AFAIK, only into a direct subdirectory in your home dir.

But maybe we're lucky and somebody else has found a different approach to make the above possible, too.

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skymt

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Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 443

Re: claws-mail default mail dir

I couldn't find any way to do it through the GUI, but you can get the result you want by editing an XML file. First, copy all your mail from ~/Mail to ~/.mail. Then open ~/.claws-mail/folderlist.xml in your favorite text editor and change the path on line 3 to ".mail" (it seems to be automatically relative to your ~).

nGerrit

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From: Aachen [GER]

Registered: 2006-09-27

Posts: 36

Re: claws-mail default mail dir

well that would work with one account. but i have multiple accounts. i dream of a folder .mail/acc1 .mail/acc2 and so on.

skymt

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Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 443

Re: claws-mail default mail dir

well that would work with one account. but i have multiple accounts. i dream of a folder .mail/acc1 .mail/acc2 and so on.

You can do that easily. Just change the path for each top-level folder in folderlist.xml. Make sure to move the mail first.