[sylpheed:32616] Re: Change name of Mail folder?

Bob White bob at bob-white.com
Sat Sep 6 12:04:35 JST 2008


On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 22:11:07 -0300
John Coppens <john at jcoppens.com> wrote:

> Hello people.
> 
> Today, a friend called me, to tell me he had lost all of his mail. I had
> installed Linux and Sylpheed on his machine, so I was interested how he
> did that.
> 
> After some discussion, I am suspecting he simply deleted the entire
> ~/Mail folder, and I realized that this is quite an inviting target to
> accidently delete.
> 
> Is it possible to tell Sylpheed to use some other folder, maybe .Mail, so
> it won't appear on the file manager? Or otherwise secure it?
> 
> Thanks for any ideas,
> John
> 
> PS: I still have to find out how he managed to delete the folder without
> it appearing in the trash can, but maybe he cleaned that out too...


Hi Johm,

When you first set up a mailbox (File -> Mailbox -> Add Mailbox) there
is a setting for the folder to use for the mailbox.  The entire message
reads 

"Specify the location of mailbox.  If the existing mailbox is
specified, it will be scanned automatically."

You can set the folder to be .Mail or anything else you like.  You can
also go into the configuration file and change the settings but I
forget just where it is at the moment.  Since you're starting from
scratch, just use the setup.  (I'm going to have to find out where it
is because I just created another mailbox by accident while checking
what the actual menus were.  I think by default it's somewhere in
.sylphged-2.0/ at least on Linux.)

Bob W.


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