<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 9:01 AM M. J. (Mel) Miners <<a href="mailto:martlet@telus.net">martlet@telus.net</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"><div dir="ltr"><div>Gents; I am a new user of Claws - or would like to be. I did exactly what Lawrence did - I installed it on my external hard drive. <br></div><div><br></div><div>From your thread, I need to change a config file. So, in what folder do I find this config file and where do I insert that string?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I am trying to figure out how I did it, what config file was edited and with what strings. Its been a while. What I use now works but if I ever need to repair or reinstall I need to know<br></div><div>how to do it. I am pretty sure it is in Claws documentation - I just need to find it. Maybe I will do that today.<br><br></div><div>This string or your version of it<br>
e:\CLAWS Mail\claws-mail.exe --alternate-config-dir e:\Claws Mail Config
<br></div><div>is what you insert in Windows "run" command and it works for me.<br><br></div><div>I will try to find out how it works and will reply here as soon as I do.<br><br></div><div>Maybe you can save me some time and tell me where Claws mail folder files are located and any extensions associated with them. It is a standard Unix mailbox file like the traditional mbox.<br></div><div>I upload these and special folders I create to copy mail messages into or store filtered messages in to my website to turn into sortable web archives using mhonarc or hypermail. It is extremely useful.<br></div><div>If I create a Claws folder called biomimicry then copy email from other folders into it then upload the mbox file to website to become a webachive this becomes a useful information management tool.<br></div><div>Here is an example - I wanted an archive of posts by a famous plant geneticist that were originally posted to a large sustainable agriculture mailing list I subscribed to. This was mbox converted by mhonarc which is not as powerful as hypermail. Mailman does it the same way only much better.<br>
Joe Cummins' posts to the Sanet-MG list 8/16/2002 to 7/18/2007<font face="Geneva,Helvetica,Arial"><br><a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/london/SoilWiki/message-archives/JoeCummins/maillist.html">http://www.ibiblio.org/london/SoilWiki/message-archives/JoeCummins/maillist.html</a><br></font><br></div><div><br></div><div>LL<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"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>With thanks, Mel<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 9:10 AM wwp <<a href="mailto:subscript@free.fr" target="_blank">subscript@free.fr</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">Hello Lawrence,<br>
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On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 23:20:03 -0700 Lawrence London <<a href="mailto:lfljvenaura@gmail.com" target="_blank">lfljvenaura@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 11:08 PM wwp <<a href="mailto:subscript@free.fr" target="_blank">subscript@free.fr</a>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> > Hello Lawrence,<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 16:29:34 -0700 Lawrence London <<a href="mailto:lfljvenaura@gmail.com" target="_blank">lfljvenaura@gmail.com</a>><br>
> > wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> > > In Windows is there a standard way to do this and is there any<br>
> > > documentation anywhere on it?<br>
> ><br>
> > You mean installing Claws Mail to a non-C: drive?<br>
> ><br>
> <br>
> To a non-C drive.<br>
> <br>
> I did it with a new Claws install on a new machine through experimenting<br>
> and it worked. It's all in how you configure it<br>
> and telling it where you want the filesystem. Its the command to run it<br>
> this way. I have one that works but its been so long since I worked that<br>
> out I have forgotten how I did it. I need to relearn/reverse engineer what<br>
> I did before.<br>
> It is a matter of altering a config file somewhere then pointing to the<br>
> folder that contains it in the command string to run Claws (from C drive on<br>
> machine with external hard drive containing the Claws file system).<br>
> <br>
> On the external drive this is the folder system used:<br>
> Drive E:<br>
> [Claws Mail]<br>
> <br>
> [Claws Mail Config]<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> STRING-TO-RUN-CLAWS-IN-RUN-VIPSAVE.txt 1KB<br>
> which is:<br>
> e:\CLAWS Mail\claws-mail.exe --alternate-config-dir e:\Claws Mail Config<br>
<br>
Well, there's nothing really tricky if you want to install the program<br>
on E:. Just pick the right drive or path during the install process.<br>
<br>
The data directory will by default be relative to you user data dir<br>
(which is commonly on C:), unless you use, as you already do,<br>
--alternate-config-dir.<br>
<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
-- <br>
wwp<br>
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