>Just be aware that storing mail folders on NFS servers is widely
>regarded as a bad idea because of locking issues. thanks and agreed upon the technical reason.
but you know we have almost 70 users that have configured the Outlook to save their emails on a network drive "Z", which is a share folder on a windows 2003 file server, and we are so happy with it(no issue faced yet regarding network based setup)
>If you use maildir as
>the storage format you should be OK
you mean instead of Evo default(mbox) if I use 'maildir' then its(network based storage) save ?
Is there any benefit of using 'mbox' over 'maildir' ?
Regards
Muhammad Sharfuddin
--- On Fri, 4/10/09, Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve> wrote:
From: Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>
Subject: Re: [Evolution] how to setup a different path of '.evolution' directory
To: evolution-list gnome org
Date: Friday, April 10, 2009, 10:10 AM
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
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