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

[Reid Thompson <reid thompson ateb com>]

Muhammad Sharfuddin wrote:
> Hi thanks
> You mean I have to first manually move the '.evolution' directory under 
> '/mails/username'
No - you have to move each user's $HOME/.evolution, then, before they restart 
evo, create the symlink to /mail/username/.evolution, so that when evo starts up 
and writes to $HOME/.evolution, it will actually be writing to the NFS mount via 
the link
> then make symbolic of '/mail/username/.evolution' under /home/username/
>
> ok, make sense, but is there not a way to configure Evo to save its 
> files(emails/calendars etc) other then /home/username/.evolution, as we 
> do in MS Outlook 2003, in my office almost 70 users are using Outlook, 
> and we have configured the Outlook to save the emails(.pst) under 
> "Z:\mails\username"
>
> is it possible to configure the Evo to save its files(mails,calendars 
> etc) somewhere else other then /home/username/.evolution ?
>
>
> --- On *Fri, 4/10/09, Reid Thompson /<Reid Thompson ateb com>/* wrote:
>
>     From: Reid Thompson <Reid Thompson ateb com>
>     Subject: Re: [Evolution] how to setup a different path of
>     '.evolution' directory
>     To: ibnerazi yahoo com
>     Cc: evolution-list gnome org
>     Date: Friday, April 10, 2009, 9:09 AM
>
>     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....