Re: [Evolution] how to setup a different path of '.evolution' directory

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 12:09 -0400, Reid Thompson wrote:
> Muhammad Sharfuddin wrote:
> >     I dont want to save the emails in the '.evolution' directory of every user's home directory
> >
> >     We have an NFS server with /evo exported, under /evo there are directories for every user.
> >
> >     on each client machine /evo(of nfs server) is mounted under /mails 
> >
> >     I want to save the emails/calenders etc under /mails/username directory.
> >
> >     I mean want like the following
> >
> >     /mails/john/.evolution
> >
> >     /mails/ron/.evolution
> >
> >     /mails/james/.evolution
> >
> >     is it possible ?
> >
> >     Regards
> >
> >
> >
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> something along the lines of...
>
> shutdown all users evolution
> move all users .evolution to .evoloution.hold
> for each user
> ln -s /mails/john/.evolution /home/john/.evolution
> ln -s /mails/ron/.evolution /home/ron/.evolution
> ...
> for each user
> mv .evolution.hold/* /home/$user/.evolution
>
> or you can use tar rather than renaming and mv'ing....

Just be aware that storing mail folders on NFS servers is widely
regarded as a bad idea because of locking issues. If you use maildir as
the storage format you should be OK, but otherwise I'd think carefully
about this.

poc