[Users] Changing primary mailbox name

Ricardo Mones ricardo at mones.org
Sun Jun 21 20:30:21 CEST 2020


Hi Jerry,

On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 11:14:00AM -0400, Jerry wrote:
> I have been trying to find a way to change the primary mailbox name. I
> can change the folder names; however, I do not see a mechanism to change
> the actual mailbox name. Is it possible?

IIRC it can be done manually: shut down Claws Mail, rename the directory
in filesystem and update ~/.claws-mail/folderlist.xml to fix the path
attribute of the renamed folder (<folder ... path="***" ...>).

Anyway, haven't tested it, so make a backup of everything first ;-)
-- 
  Ricardo Mones 
  ~
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  questions.                                               A hologram

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