<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 8:24 PM Dustin Miller <<a href="mailto:dustbiz@gmail.com">dustbiz@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Thu, 13 Aug 2020 10:29:56 -0700<br>
Lawrence London <<a href="mailto:lfljvenaura@gmail.com" target="_blank">lfljvenaura@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 9:25 AM wwp <<a href="mailto:subscript@free.fr" target="_blank">subscript@free.fr</a>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> > On Thu, 13 Aug 2020 10:01:24 -0600 "M. J. (Mel) Miners"<br>
> > <<a href="mailto:martlet@telus.net" target="_blank">martlet@telus.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> > <br>
> > > Gents; I am a new user of Claws - or would like to be. I did<br>
> > > exactly what Lawrence did - I installed it on my external hard<br>
> > > drive.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > From your thread, I need to change a config file. So, in what<br>
> > > folder do I find this config file and where do I insert that<br>
> > > string? <br>
> ><br>
> > There is no config file to change, you have to change the way you<br>
> > call Claws Mail itself. For instance, by editing the shortcut so<br>
> > that you add --alternate-config-dir "e:\path\to\your\config\dir" to<br>
> > the command-line. If you're not comfortable with such operation,<br>
> > prefer installing the program and the run-time config directory to<br>
> > the standard default C: drive.<br>
> > <br>
> <br>
> wwp:<br>
> I thought that some config file had to be edited.<br>
> <br>
DM: Lawrence, what you may be thinking of is the folder list (XML) file<br>
located in the configuration directory. Not sure if it's the same on<br>
Windows, but in Linux if you change the location of your message<br>
store(s) from the default, then you have to edit this folder list to<br>
tell Claws where to look for them (there's usually one line per mailbox<br>
that needs to have its path string edited).</blockquote><div><br>Thanks a million, Dustin. I will have to take a look and see if I can find this file and whether I need to edit it. As it is now<br></div><div>Claws runs fine and I have all my folders where they need to be, i.e. a mirror of my Gmail account. <br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> Besides what wwp wrote<br>
about telling Claws where to find the config directory when running it,<br>
(in Linux at least) you also have to tell Claws during the installation<br>
process that that's where you want the config directory to be put.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, indeed. I experimented with a new install on a new machine and discovered the point in the configuration where it <br></div><div>asks me where to put the config directory so I had it located in e:\Claws Mail Config and it works perfectly.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
(When Claws is run, if it knows where to find the config directory,<br>
then it will also be able to find the folder list file, which tells it<br>
where to find the message store(s).) There's also the (perhaps confusing<br>
for some) difference between where you install the program itself (i.e.<br>
the executable) vs. where you 'install' the config directory and message<br>
store(s). In this thread I haven't always been sure that everyone is<br>
talking about the same thing in relation to these. Hope these<br>
additional thoughts help. ---Dustin<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>For me that is:<br><br></div><div>In drive e:\<br>[Claws Mail] <br>[Claws Mail Config] </div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">_______________________________________________<br>
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