[sylpheed:30490] Re: Saving configuration

[Bruce Bowler]

I'm not John, but I'd be interested in the various scripts to set things
up properly...

Bruce

On Sun, 3 Dec 2006 08:29:40 +0100
Andrei Mircea <mircea.andrei at wanadoo.fr> put fingers to keyboard and said:

> I also run Sylpheed on several computers, Linux and Windows, in several
> places. However I carry the Mail directory and another directory
> containing configuration files with me on USB stick. On each computer,
> Sylpheed is launched from a different script which is adjusted to
> account for the local conditions (Windows or Linux, name of the stick
> partition...). This works well. If you are interested, I can write you
> the details. Andrei 
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 21:15:02 -0600
> John Gateley <sylpheed at jfoo.net> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I run Sylpheed on (at least) 3 different computers: work/linux,
> > work/windows and home/windows.
> > 
> > I've been playing with my e-mail set up, and now have several e-mail
> > accounts too (such as sylpheed at jfoo.net). Sylpheed handles the
> > multiple accounts gracefully.
> > 
> > I'd like to be able to save the configuration so that any time I
> > change my account setup, I could just save it, send it to myself via
> > e-mail (or web page) and start Sylpheed on the other systems with the
> > new configuration. Otherwise, when I add an account, I have to
> > remember to add it to all the systems.
> > 
> > It looks like I could just do it with tar to save the configuration
> > files, if all the systems were linux. Unfortunately, some are windows,
> > and I'm not sure where the windows variant is saving the
> > configuration files.
> > 
> > I'm also not sure, even if I could copy the conf files, if the Windows
> > Sylpheed could read files generated by Linux Sylpheed and vice versa.
> > 
> > Thanks for any help or suggestions...
> > 
> > j
> > 


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