On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 18:32, guenther wrote: > On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 15:39, Wouter van Marle wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 21:33, Denis O. Mikhalkin wrote: > > > > > > [...] Therefore I wanted to > > > make evolution use some special local folder on my machine which has > > > enough space and is very fast. How can I do it? > > > > The Unix method would be to create a dir where you want to have your > > evolution stuff on the local machine, and then create a symlink > > ~/evolution to that dir. Remember to copy the content of the current > > ~/evolution dir to the new dir prior to removing ~/evolution and > > putting a symlink in place. > > Yep, that is correct. I tested this (back in the 1.2.x day IIRC) and it > worked perfectly. > > Just remember, that the mails itself are on another machine. Thus, when > logging in to your account on the NFS server from another machine, this > symlink will be false. > > ...guenther > Thanks Wouter and guenther, I thought about making a symlink, good to know that it works though it is kind of odd - make someone go to local disc through NFS... One reason to not store mailbox on NFS is that sometimes it dies(one of the servers dies and other server start broadcasting the network making local DOS, happens all the time in our network) - and you're out of business. Not sure whether keeping only evolution profile on the local disk will help in this case but I wanted to try.
Anyway, I still think that Evolution needs the same thing other mailers(like Mozilla) have: when they create the profile for the first time they ask - "Where to store you profile?". And the ability to pick-up already filled profile when someone tries to create new one on place of previous one. Denis _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
