[sylpheed:36194] Re: Proper way to migrate from WinXP to Linux?

[uhel at gmx.net]

On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 19:15:31 +0200
Javier <meresponde2001-sylpheed at yahoo.es> 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?
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm going to say a stupid thing, that is the reason I haven't replied
> yet, but in Windows there is a sylpheed.ini, isn't there a Linux
> equivalent?
> 
> http://sylpheeddoc.sourceforge.net/en/faq/sylpheed-faq-2.html#d0e1507
> 
> Here I read that you can change the path in folderlist.xml but that
> doesn't "fix" the problem of specify where should be the mails
> folder (that is strange it is searchin in the user root folder), but
> a mixed workarround, changing the main <folder> declaration path.
> 
In the first 15min after adjusting the folderlist.xml everything seems 
to work as it should so to me this is the workaround solution.
Workaround becaus I have to do that manually without knowing if there 
is anything else I should have changes too. It's not only about where
the Mailboxes are located, it's still about "Proper migration" between
OSes...

> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=258717
> 
> But I won't do myself because using the current path of the
> configuration files to specify another path is mix things too much,
> in my opinion. All files are or should be in the same path.
> 
I'd say thats not the *nix way of doing things. To me separating 
configuration from data feels natural and IHMO should also be done on 
Windows.

> If you try, remember to make backups of all first.
> 
My backup is called *my old windwos HDD* ;)


Regards
-- 
 <uhel at gmx.net>