On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 09:02, Mark Neill wrote:
> On 1 Oct 2002, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Can this be done? If so,how?
> > >
> > > nope.
> >
> > Has this been fixed (as promised for soo long) in evo 1.1.1 ?
>
> What exactly is there to fix?
you have no option but to live with the directory/link $HOME/evolution
Other mailers (yes even stone-age-old ns4) can be configured to use a
custom directory.
I am not alone with this.
repeating myself it would be nice to have it fixed like e.g.
From: Soeren Sonnenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Evolution Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Evolution] /home/$user/evolution question
Date: 25 Jan 2002 20:18:22 +0100
On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 19:15, Ettore Perazzoli wrote:
> Evolution is currently setup to put all of you configs and email into
> the /home/$user/evolution folder. Is there a way in a config/menu to
> configure this to use a hidden dot directory (like
> /home/$user/.evolution/)?
>
> I have yet to find anything in the configs that leads me to think that I
> can set that.
>
>
> Indeed, that's not configurable in 1.0.x.
I vote for an environment variable, EVOLUTION_MAIL which is to be used
first (or when ${HOME}/evolution does not exist :-? )
Which is as simple as:
char* evodir=getenv("EVOLUTION_MAIL");
Thanks,
Soeren.
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