[Users] Changing primary mailbox name

[Dave Howorth]

On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 20:30:21 +0200
Ricardo Mones <ricardo at mones.org> wrote:

> 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 ;-)

Err, my mailbox is called 'Mail' in the filesystem and is called
'Mailbox (MH)' in the UI and there is the following in folderlist.xml: 
'<folder type="mh" path="Mail" sort="0" collapsed="0" name="Mailbox">'
so my guess would be that what I need to do is change the name
attribute rather than the path attribute, and make no other changes.

But having said that, I'm not willing to arbitrarily change my
working mail system to see if my conjecture is right! :)