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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">At Pierre
Fortin</blockquote><br>
Where to start...? :)<br><br>
So many ways to setup...<br><br>
As you've noticed, re-installing does not lose your previous work.
So...<br>
if you want to start fresh, delete, move or rename any folders
you've<br>
created so far, especially ~/.claws-mail, then...<br><br>
Now, CM should go through these screens:<br>
- Welcome<br>
- About You<br>
- Receiving Mail<br>
- Sending Mail<br>
- Saving mail on disk -- this is where you need to decide on your
setup<br>
- Configuration finished<br><br>
Some choices:<br><br>
- everything under ~/Mail -- just keep adding accounts; but they
share<br>
the Inbox, Draft, Sent, Queue, Trash folders. <br><br>
- If you want multiple accounts, each with their own Inbox, Draft,
Sent,<br>
Queue, Trash folders, change Mail to <account1> on the
"Saving mail on<br>
disk" setup screen. Then, when CM comes up, use
File->Add Mailbox->MH<br>
to add the other accounts (change "Mail" to the account
name).<br><br>
- In my case, I have quite a few accounts for different purposes, so
I<br>
actually have 2 instances of CM running at all times under userid1
and<br>
userid2. Of course, each can use either the shared or separate
folder<br>
structures.<br><br>
I won't get into issue of POP v. IMAP because I've never been
interested<br>
in IMAP...<br><br>
Hope this helps get you started...<br><br>
Pierre (just a CM user for about 14 years :)<br><br>
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Forgot to mention that you can also:<br>
$ mkdir Mail<br>
then create the separate accounts with Mail/Account1... <br><br>
The initial setup would give:<br>
/home/user/{account1,...,accountN} while this one would have the
accounts<br>
under /home/user/Mail/... so they don't end up separated by other<br>
directories in file lists.</blockquote><br>
I uninstalled again, moved the emails to new directories (different
names) in "Documents", and deleted the empty the mail
folders. On re-install and open of Claws, the mail folder tree was
instantly reconstructed with the emails inside. <br><br>
I thought I did the equivalent of mkdir in the Nemo GUI. I tried
for "/home/user/Claws Mail", but it looks like Claws would
refer to it as "#MH/Claws Mail/inbox" (at least for the
incoming mail path). <br>
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I used Eudora 7.1 on an old XP machine and am finally trying to switch to
Linux. If I can get Claws set up, it would be great to put incoming
and outgoing mail in common sort-folders. Eudora also required all
mail to go through a primary "in" or "out" box; that
makes sense, but after filtering, it seems better to have the mail sorted
by correspondent/group with outgoing mail included for threading
(imho). Also, Eudora used a marking system where you could see
drafts, sent mail, and qued mail together but easily distinguish between
them. The same is true for read and unread mail in the inbox (all
folders after sorting too). Incoming mail would sort to designated
folders, and it could be sorted by date or topic in the folders.
Outgoing mail would not sort to the folders until it was sent, but my
outgoing box had some sent mail that I had not made filters for, and the
mark for "sendable" was distinct from that for sent. Is
this possible in Claws? It seems more convenient to view an
outgoing box with attribute marks indicating posts pre- and post-send
than to look into several folders. Granted, I still have problems
getting to the point where this question is my current
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