[sylpheed:36186] Re: Proper way to migrate from WinXP to Linux?

[Craig]

On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 18:14:35 +0200 uhel at gmx.net wrote:

> Maybe I should restart this thread with the subject 
> "how to tell Sylpheed where the mailboxes are" to get more attention?

Well, that clarified things.

I moved my .sylpheed-2.0 and Mail directories to another directory and
ran Sylpheed (3.5.0beta1). It gave me a choice where to make the mh
directory; I took the default (~/Mail).

Looking at the new .sylpheed-2.0 directory, I found in the file
folderlist.xml the following:

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<folderlist>
    <folder type="mh" name="Mailbox" path="Mail">
        <folderitem type="draft" name="draft" path="draft" threaded="1"
                 mtime="0" new="0" unread="0" total="0" />
        <folderitem type="junk" name="junk" path="junk" threaded="1"
                 mtime="0" new="0" unread="0" total="0" />
        <folderitem type="trash" name="trash" path="trash" threaded="1"
                 mtime="0" new="0" unread="0" total="0" />
        <folderitem type="outbox" name="sent" path="sent" threaded="1"
                 mtime="0" new="0" unread="0" total="0" />
        <folderitem type="inbox" name="inbox" path="inbox" threaded="1"
                 mtime="0" new="0" unread="0" total="0" />
        <folderitem type="queue" name="queue" path="queue" threaded="1"
                 mtime="0" new="0" unread="0" total="0" />
    </folder>
</folderlist>

----------------------------------------------------------------

So you can either start Sylpheed's set-up process as I did above and
then rebuild the folder tree, or edit ~/.sylpheed-2.0/folderlist.xml to
change the path to what is shown in the second line of the file as listed
above and then rebuild the folder tree.


Craig