[sylpheed:36957] Re: Change displayorder of mailboxes

Souji Thenria souji at souji-thenria.com
Tue Aug 18 04:59:31 JST 2020


Ohhh ok.
I was searching in the installation directory...

Thanks a lot :)

On 17/08/2020 21:50, Luigi Liqih wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> folderlist.xml in Windows is in Data/Profile
> or in Mail, or in Mailboxes, depends on your instalation.
> 
> On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 20:47:38 +0200
> Souji Thenria <souji at souji-thenria.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> sorry for the late answer.
>> It seems like in the Windows version does the folderlist.xml not exist.
>>
>> So, I just have to re add the mailboxes manually. It is actually not
>> that big of a deal. I was just curios if the is a more comfortable way
>> of doing it.
>>
>> Souji
>>
>> On 08/08/2020 11:12, Thomas White wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>> I have multiple mailboxes in Sylpheed and want to change the order in
>>>> which they are listed. So I thought it might be possible with
>>>> Configuration -> Edit accounts, but it seems like the order in there
>>>> does not influence the order in which the mailboxes are displayed.
>>>
>>> This seems to be possible if you're comfortable editing XML by hand.
>>> At least, I've tried it myself and there seem to be no side-effects.
>>>
>>> Find the file folderlist.xml (in ~/.sylpheed-2.0 on Unix, I don't know
>>> where to find it on Windows), and move the <folder>....</folder> blocks
>>> into the order you want.  Don't change the "account_id" fields because
>>> these have to agree with the contents of other config files as well.
>>>
>>> Make a backup first, obviously!  Ideally back up the entire Sylpheed
>>> configuration directory.
>>>
>>> Hope that helps,
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>


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