Re: [Evolution] How to change the place where evolution stores mail and configs?

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 15:39, Wouter van Marle wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 21:33, Denis O. Mikhalkin wrote:
> > [...] Therefore I wanted to
> > make evolution use some special local folder on my machine which has
> > enough space and is very fast. How can I do it?
>
> The Unix method would be to create a dir where you want to have your
> evolution stuff on the local machine, and then create a symlink
> ~/evolution to that dir. Remember to copy the content of the current
> ~/evolution dir to the new dir prior to removing ~/evolution and
> putting a symlink in place.

Yep, that is correct. I tested this (back in the 1.2.x day IIRC) and it
worked perfectly.

Just remember, that the mails itself are on another machine. Thus, when
logging in to your account on the NFS server from another machine, this
symlink will be false.

...guenther


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