How can I change the directory where claws-mail
stores the mail folders? By default it stores it in /home/USERNAME/
.
I would like to have them in a hidden directory. Searching the web did not yield any usable result.
Look in $HOME/.claws-mail/clawsrc
and change the value of mailbox
.
The default location for Claws Mail's configuration files is
$HOME/.claws-mail/
. (The commandclaws-mail --config-dir
shows the location.)They are in plain text format and quite easy to understand, so don't fear to take a look into them using a text editor.
clawsrc
main configuration: nearly all options from the settings window, e.g. mailbox location, font entries, etc.
Source What configuration files are there, and what are they used for?
clawsrc
and could not find anything helpful. But I stumbled upon a solution which should work in general from within the gui.
Commented
Sep 6, 2016 at 17:04
.my_mailboxes/main_mailbox
somewhere in one of the claws configuration files Note there are many in $HOME/.claws-mail/
:)
accountrc[.bak|.tmpl]
and folderlist.xml
Commented
Sep 6, 2016 at 22:37
Just tried another research and lucky me, I found the solution: Just name your mailbox name as a path relative from /home/
OR as an absolute path:
For example one could enter: .my_mailboxes/main_mailbox
I found that simple solution here: http://lists.claws-mail.org/pipermail/users/2012-February/001496.html