[Users] Using Claws and Sylpheed together

[Charles Lehner]

On Sun, 31 May 2015 09:30:34 -0400
<edward at coolsite.net> wrote:

> I have both Claws and Sylpheed installed on Fedora 21, but have been
> using Claws (installed with MATE desktop). Sylpheed wants to create a
> mailbox at /home/<user>/Mail, which is what Claws did at first run.
> 
> Is it safe to use this same directory path for both e-mail programs?
> 
> Thanks in advance.

I've been doing this and it seems to work. One thing is that Claws and Sylpheed both maintain cache and mark files for each mail directory, so the state of which mails are marked as read, etc. may get unsynchronized. I've had success with making in each mail folder a symlink .sylpheed_mark -> .claws_mark so that the mark files are shared by Claws and Sylpheed. I haven't tried sharing the cache files. Someone else can correct me if this is considered unsafe.

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Charles