Bug 1415

Summary:	Need way to change mail cache location after initial setup...
Product:	Claws Mail (Maemo)	Reporter:	Tim Samoff <tim>
Component:	General	Assignee:	users
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3
Version:	3.0.2
Hardware:	Nokia n800
OS:	Linux

Description Tim Samoff 2007-12-01 18:07:00 UTC

Choosing a location for Claws' mail cache location is a wonderful feature for the N-Series Tablets, but it can only be set on initial setup.

It would be nice to be able to change this in the Preferences.

This, of course, would leave an old, unused cache directory somewhere, but those are pretty easy to find and delete manually. (Or, save as a backup.)

Optionally, a function to find (browse) and delete (or maybe even compress?) old cache directories could be built into Claws as well. But, that's not entirely necessary.

Comment 1 Paul 2007-12-01 18:30:33 UTC

Are you talking about the Mailbox location or the config dir where IMAP and NNTP caches are saved?

For the first use /File/Add mailbox/MH... giving the full path to the new location. (You can even copy your existing Mail folder there before adding it)

For the latter, you can use 'claws-mail --alternate-config-dir [dir]'

Comment 2 Paul 2007-12-01 18:31:46 UTC

BTW, --alternate-config-dir is available since version 3.1.0

Comment 3 Tim Samoff 2007-12-01 18:57:55 UTC

Oh, ok! I will try that. (I recently asked Colin about this and he said the only way was to delete all of the Claws config files and reinitiate the setup wizard.)

Comment 4 Paul 2007-12-01 19:04:08 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> Oh, ok! I will try that. (I recently asked Colin about this and he said the
> only way was to delete all of the Claws config files and reinitiate the setup
> wizard.)


I'm guessing that that was before the new  --alternate-config-dir was added.

Comment 5 Tim Samoff 2008-08-07 14:47:58 UTC

I'm reopening this bug, as it continues to be an issues. Example: My external SD card (where the Claws cache was stored) went bad and Claws was forevermore unable to open -- until I got a new card.

There needs to be an easy way to change this for novice users.

Comment 6 Ricardo Mones 2013-04-02 18:06:39 UTC

Platform is not supported anymore.