Claws Mail - mail folder location

Demontager

Demontager

I have installed Claws Mail alongside Thunderbird as I need separate personal mail boxes from websites' mail. I almost fully satisfied whith Claws Mail, only one thing which I want to change - I need store folders for mail boxes in another directory, by default they are stored in /home/user. I want place them somewhere to /home/user/mail.
 
Try:
Configuration->Edit accounts->[Choose desired account)->Edit

Within this account have a look at "Basic" and "Receive".
E.g. when using mboxes you can define a path here.
 
it gives no way to choose location in Basic and Receive tab. You may choose there where to put mail from predefined path, i tried to change it to something like - /home/user/mailaccount
but it doesn't save.

Actual format defined there is #mh/admin@domain.com/inbox and Browse button gives way to choose another folder from predefined paths only.
These paths created when I choose File-->Add mailbox-->Mh . And by default this mail box created in /home/user/

I need such stucture:

-/home/user/mail
----mailaccount1
-Inbox
-Sent
-Trash
----mailaccount2
-Inbox
-Sent
-Trash
 
I've not tried this, but from doing other things with claws-mail folder this may work.

Create the folder /home/user/mail
Move the existing mail folder under this new directory, so it will be /home/usr/mail/account1, for example
In Claws mail, Add mailbox -> MH -> put the directory mail/account1 and it should bring in the existing mail folder
Then Add mailbox again with the directory mail/account2

You probably want to remove the existing mailbox from claws-mail first and back up everything.
 
I removed accounts from /home/user and put them to /home/user/Mail then I started Claws and it created same accounts' folders in /home/user, but with empty mails.
I read Claws faq and found that some variables could be defined in accountrc.tmpl, but i'm not sure if accounts' location exist there http://pastebin.com/zWzv8zLC
 
If there is no way to change this behaviour, can't you use a symbolic link ?

Personally, every time I send a mail, the message goes in the sent folder of the first account no matter the one I write from. I never tried to solve this, but could let me know if you have this problem too ?
 
Symbolic link doesn't solve this problem, yes I may put links to /home/user/Mail. But this is not what I want to do. I need move folders physically to /home/user/Mail to clear home folder.

formateur_fou, your problem will be solved if you go to Configuration -->Prefrences fo current account --> Advanced
Much more this screen explain you http://6g6.eu/sih0-yascrot.png
 
Demontager said:
I removed accounts from /home/user and put them to /home/user/Mail then I started Claws and it created same accounts' folders in /home/user, but with empty mails.
I read Claws faq and found that some variables could be defined in accountrc.tmpl, but i'm not sure if accounts' location exist there http://pastebin.com/zWzv8zLC
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When I do this, if I use the name of an existing directory it reads the mail that is there.

So you put Mail/account1_name as the mailbox location for Add Mailbox?
 
roddierod At last i got it, thank you very much! Yes, when i create Mh mailbox i need define relative path to /user/home and Claws creates sub-folders automatically. But before need create empty folders for accounts respectively in /home/user/Mail/
 
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