Re: [Evolution] Put Evo data on removable drive?

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

What you need to do is make a symlink from ~/evolution to the location
on your scsi drive.

Even still I'm not sure it'll work as Win32 mailers will want to see
CRLF end-of-line sequences while Unix uses just LF

Jeff

On 26 Jan 2001 13:06:25 -0500, Duncan Mak wrote:
> On 26 Jan 2001 12:30:47 -0500, Lloyd Llewellyn wrote:
> > I have a removable SCSI drive that I carry between home and work daily.
> > It's FAT32 (for compatibility betw Linux and Win2K).
> >
> > Is possible to move the Evo files onto this drive so that I can have the
> > same mail base at home and at work?
>
> Evolution can store messages in either mbox format, MH format, or
> MailDir format. Depending on which format your Windows mailer can handle
> (most can do mbox, which is the default type), I guess it would work.
> You just have to point to the direct location of the mbox file itself,
> which is usually $HOME/evolution/local/Inbox/mbox.
>
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> Duncan Mak
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