[Users] Need help, moving from kmail-1.13.5 to claws-mail

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 24 February 2014 10:33:36 Ricardo Mones did opine:

> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 08:44:51AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Monday 24 February 2014 08:42:10 Paul did opine:
> > > On Sat, 22 Feb 2014 22:05:35 -0500
> > > 
> > > Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > > > /var/spool/mail/$user
> > > 
> > > Create a 'Local' account in Claws and that will pick up mail
> > > from /var/spool/mail/$user
> > > 
> > > with regards
> > > 
> > > Paul
> > 
> > This is what I am doing in kmail now.  But in the long run, I'd like
> > to put dovecot in the chain so I can access it, using claws in imap
> > mode, from any machine on my local net.
> 
>   If you have X servers on your local net machines you can simply ssh -X
> your server and run Claws Mail there but viewing it locally.
> 
>   regards,

Thinking about how to be able to experiment without tearing down kmail, I 
guess my first question is, since I have disk space, is:

How do I change claws-mail's default mail holding directory away from 
$HOME/Mail, so that there is not any interactions with kmail's used of the 
$HOME/Mail tree?  That way, I can setup a duplicate folder tree, and 
"import" whatever I can just to see how it might work.

This would be for the local to this drive copy only, but come time to swap 
drives for good, then I could just fire up mc and copy it to the normal 
$HOME/Mail on the other drive.

I have looked at my ~/.claws-mail/accountrc, but I don't see a directive 
there that looks like it might actually be the right one to edit.  There 
are several candidate lines, but not one that actually says ~/Mail now.

Gotta start someplace.

Thanks.

Cheers, Gene
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