mailboxes in own directory ?
Unknown
And make i work :-)
i.e. c:\eudora\mailboxes
Unknown
Sorry, the answer is: deudora.ini
John H Meyers
>> Is it possible to put mailboxes in own directory ?
>> i.e. c:\eudora\mailboxes
> Sorry, the answer is: deudora.ini
While you can specify a mail "Data" folder path in "deudora.ini"
(a file installed with Eudora's programs, which remembers
the choice for "Data" made at installation time),
attention to that path is somewhat far down the list
of the steps by which Eudora finds its "Data" folder when launched
(details of which come with the installed "Readme.txt" file)
and in fact may not be heeded under various circumstances.
The most absolutely sure way to point Eudora to a particular "Data" folder,
and force it to use that folder, no matter what else may suggest otherwise,
is to include the folder path on the command line which starts Eudora, e.g.:
".....\Eudora.exe" "C:\...\any_folder"
Every Windows "shortcut" created for launching Eudora.exe
contains its command line in the "Target" field,
which you may modify in the "Properties" of that shortcut.
You may, in this fashion, even use multiple different "Data" folders,
by creating different shortcuts to launch Eudora,
which would not otherwise be feasible.
I often use as many as four different instances of Eudora simultaneously,
each with its own "Data" folder, using four different shortcuts.
The same effect occurs if you drag any folder and drop it on
program file Eudora.exe, or drop it on any shortcut for Eudora.exe
which does not already specify a second path on its command line.
This is how I test various versions of Eudora with fresh,
never before used "Data" folders, by dragging new empty folders
to shortcuts for any of the several Eudora versions which I've installed.
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Stan Bischof
eudora <maildir> puts all of your mail
data exactly where you want on any version
of Windows. This works great for UNCs
also so you can keep all your mail
on a server and access it from any
machine on a network. also
good vor multi-user systems, multiple
configs, etc
Stan
>
Stan Bischof
>
> The most absolutely sure way to point Eudora to a particular "Data" folder,
> and force it to use that folder, no matter what else may suggest otherwise,
> is to include the folder path on the command line which starts Eudora, e.g.:
>
> ".....\Eudora.exe" "C:\...\any_folder"
>
> Every Windows "shortcut" created for launching Eudora.exe
> contains its command line in the "Target" field,
> which you may modify in the "Properties" of that shortcut.
>
> You may, in this fashion, even use multiple different "Data" folders,
> by creating different shortcuts to launch Eudora,
> which would not otherwise be feasible.
>
A real plus is that this makes Eudora completely poratble.
New machine: install Eudora and copy your mail directory.
Note that this is of course true for most any program Instead
of strewing your data across the file system cretae and use
a single "home" directory and keep everything there.
Stan
Peter Granzeau
<st...@newserve.worldbadminton.com> wrote:
And what is the procedure when deciding to put a whole bunch of
mailboxes which all have filed emails in them, into their own
subdirectory? What about attachments?
John H Meyers
> What is the procedure when deciding to put a whole bunch
> of mailboxes which all have filed emails in them,
> into their own subdirectory?
The first problem in trying to answer any posted question
is trying to guess what the question means :)
If you want to create subfolders and move existing mailboxes
into them, just use a "New" menu item under the "Mailbox"
or "Transfer" menus, or when right-clicking either the
top level or any folder in the "Mailboxes" tool window,
check-marking the "Make it a folder" box to create folders,
then transfer messages or mailboxes via either
menu operations or tool window operations.
If you want to combine mailboxes from somewhere else
by adding them to some particular Eudora mail "Data" folder,
you may either create the mail sub-folder(s) first within Eudora,
or create Windows sub-folder(s) named "anyname.fol"
in any Eudora main mail folder, then copy mailbox file pairs
(xxxx.mbx and xxxx.toc) into that folder, from somewhere else.
When Eudora is next launched, an "anyname" folder
will then appear in the mailbox folder tree,
along with whatever mailboxes were copied into it.
Mail sub-folders may also be "nested" within others,
if desired, to make a mailbox "tree" having even more levels.
The folder name extension ".fol" is what Eudora uses
to create and to recognize sub-folders in the mailbox "tree"
An "inventory" of all folders and mailboxes is performed
upon each launch of Eudora, so that any disk file operations
performed between invocations will be automatically reflected
in both Eudora's menu system and "Mailboxes" tool window.
> What about attachments?
I leave the issue of attachments (and embedded files)
to someone who has the time to write a book on the subject,
particularly when it comes to merging collections of messages
having any duplicated file names among all attachments or all embedded files.
This is where Eudora's otherwise "nice" feature of separating
incoming messages from their attachments upon arrival
may cause some headaches later on (almost any other email program
keeps the entire original "package" together in each individual message,
which offers several "pros" in exchange for a couple of "cons")
It may be of slight help to note that if an attachment
which came with an original incoming message is not found
at the exact path originally stored within the message body,
Eudora will try looking in the currently designated
"Attachment directory" for a file of the same name.
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Unknown
<jhme...@nomail.invalid> wrote:
> The first problem in trying to answer any posted question
> is trying to guess what the question means :)
To me it means keeping the mailboxes out of the mess in the Eudora
folder.
I created a subfolder: \eudora\mailboxes
Moved all mailboxes over there, edited deudora.ini:
DataFolder=C:\EUDORA\mailboxes
But then Eudora created 12 folders in that folder like attach,
embedded a.s.o
What I wanted was a subfolder containing ONLY the mailboxes.
But that is apparently not possible (?)
John H Meyers
JHM
>> The first problem in trying to answer any posted question
>> is trying to guess what the question means :)
Jan
> To me it means keeping the mailboxes out of the mess in the Eudora folder.
> I created a subfolder: \eudora\mailboxes
> Moved all mailboxes over there, edited deudora.ini:
> DataFolder=C:\EUDORA\mailboxes
> But then Eudora created 12 folders in that folder like attach,
> embedded a.s.o
"DataFolder" means the single folder which contains _everything_
that belongs to the user -- settings, mailboxes, addresses, filters,
search indexes, and many other files which Eudora creates for you.
If you simply change that path, Eudora will of course
suddenly find that many necessary files and sub-folders,
expected to be found in the "main" user data directory,
would suddenly appear missing, and it will re-create what is needed,
the same as it does for a brand new empty initial folder,
when Eudora is first installed by a new user.
> What I wanted was a subfolder containing ONLY the mailboxes.
> But that is apparently not possible (?)
Do you mean that you want to separate your user files
from the "program" files?
For someone who had originally designated the same folder
for both programs and data, one way is to duplicate
the entire original single folder to a new location,
then create a shortcut which tells Eudora to start using the new location
as the data folder, then (optionally) prune out the files which don't belong
in each original folder (programs folder vs. data folder).
Another approach is to uninstall the current Eudora -- this removes
all the originally installed program files but leaves the user files in place,
so that you can use what's left as a "user data" folder without the programs,
then you can re-install the programs in their own separate path,
which will now be free of any user data.
Before uninstalling version 7, it's suggested to see whether there exists
a file "x1lib.dll" in the programs folder -- save a copy elsewhere if so,
because this library (used for the "X1" search feature in Paid mode)
is no longer installed by anything currently downloadable from Eudora.com,
but you can manually add it after installation, if you have a copy of it.
Many users back up everything first, before doing any file or folder surgery,
so that they can restore things if any guesswork (or even suggestions here :)
causes any unexpected things to happen.
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