[sylpheed:36193] Re: Proper way to migrate from WinXP to Linux?

[uhel at gmx.net]

On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 11:04:45 -0600
Craig <freecycle01 at pisquared.net> wrote:

> 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:
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> <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.
> 
To me restarting with no or an empty ./sylpheed is the thing I definitly don't
want to do. 

I thought I tried to edit the folderlist.xml maybe I did it wrong but this
time it worked :)
Just adding "Mail/" to the path property like path="Mail/<your Mailbox>" and
everything looks like as it should look. 
I ran "Rebuild folder tree" after that maybe I didn't need to but.....
> 
> Craig
Thanks again for looking into that. 
Anyway it would be really nice if one can rerun the wizzard from the first 
start that asks where the mailboxes are. 

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 <uhel at gmx.net>