I was wondering if anyone has, or would it be possible, to make a version of Kmail that is portable. By that I mean made so that you could have it on a CD, or usb drive that you could take with you. Mail and settings could be stored and saved there, and would not be kept on the workstation. Like thunderbird I guess. I have tried thunderbird, esp using win machines, but unless I am missing a setup option, it does not seem to thread messages properly. But, the older versions would just run from a directory, on your desktop or whereever. All you email was stored there too. You could take it all with you. Unfotunately the newer versions have an install routin that installs the app in the normal places. I really like kmail, and was wondering if/how to make it "portable". Pardon the meandering. -- Jim Flanagan linuxjim@jjfiii.com
Jim, On Thursday 28 Apr 2005 04:23, Jim Flanagan wrote:
I was wondering if anyone has, or would it be possible, to make a version of Kmail that is portable. By that I mean made so that you could have it on a CD, or usb drive that you could take with you. Mail and settings could be stored and saved there, and would not be kept on the workstation. Like thunderbird I guess.
I haven't tried it myself, but this was just announced recently: http://dot.kde.org/1114105085/ The Linux release has a version of OPIE mail (based on QT) that I think has been tweaked to work with Kaddressbook. -- Colin Pinkney http://www.cpinkney.org.uk
On Thursday 28 Apr 2005 04:23, Jim Flanagan wrote:
I was wondering if anyone has, or would it be possible, to make a version of Kmail that is portable. By that I mean made so that you could have it on a CD, or usb drive that you could take with you. Mail and settings could be stored and saved there, and would not be kept on the workstation. Like thunderbird I guess.
Hi Jim, This is not that difficult, you can use kmail as it is, if you are able to make a few symlinks. I'm constantly moving my kmail from desktop to notebook and back. In kde3.4 your mails are in ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/ Some settings etc. are in ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/ and some in ~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc Here in kmailrc you can also specify where your mail folder is (default to ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/ ) Before kde3.4 the mails had been usually in ~/Mail/ All you need now is to put the complete content of ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/ in a folder on your usb drive, and also the file ~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc Then symlink the folder on your usb drive to ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/, and the file ~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc to the kmailrc on your usb drive, and fire up kmail. If you use kde < 3.4 you might need to do the same with the folder ~/Mail/ Put it on your usb drive and symlink it to ~/Mail/ This procedure works fine for me. Instead of having it on an usb drive, you can also copy it with rsync to the second PC, while you work with that one, and after copy it back with rsync to the main PC. To make the copy quickly and have it also delete the mails on the target PC which you deleted or moved while working on the second PC use this rsync options: rsync -avz --stats --delete-excluded --progress --exclude '*.ids' --exclude '*.sorted' --exclude '*.index' /mnt/Mail/ /home/yourname/Mail However kmail will then take some time when started, because it rebuild the index files. Which might make sense anyway especially when using different kmail versions on the 2 PCs. HTH, Matt
Hi: I am having trouble here(suse 9.3/kde 3.4) navigating with konqueror. Sometimes it works well, but after a while it complaints of not knowing about the requested URL. Later, after I manage to get it to work(by insisting), then web sites are shown without images...very poorly rendered!!! I prefer konqueror to firefox or mozilla, and have allways been satisfied with it in all others version of suse. Anybody have any idea what's going on on this suse 9.3. thanks in advance jorge
On Saturday 30 April 2005 04:05, Jorge Luis Arzola wrote:
Hi:
I am having trouble here(suse 9.3/kde 3.4) navigating with konqueror. Sometimes it works well, but after a while it complaints of not knowing about the requested URL. Later, after I manage to get it to work(by insisting), then web sites are shown without images...very poorly rendered!!! I prefer konqueror to firefox or mozilla, and have allways been satisfied with it in all others version of suse. Anybody have any idea what's going on on this suse 9.3.
thanks in advance
jorge
hmmm, I do not understand what that has to do with "Portable KMail", the subject of your post. Please clarify! In any case, do a YOU update to get the latest versions, your problem might be solved already. Regards, Matt
Hi Matt: Sorry for the subject. I already posted an email whith the apropiate subjetc El Sábado, 30 de Abril de 2005 09:01, Matt T. escribió:
On Saturday 30 April 2005 04:05, Jorge Luis Arzola wrote:
Hi:
I am having trouble here(suse 9.3/kde 3.4) navigating with konqueror. Sometimes it works well, but after a while it complaints of not knowing about the requested URL. Later, after I manage to get it to work(by insisting), then web sites are shown without images...very poorly rendered!!! I prefer konqueror to firefox or mozilla, and have allways been satisfied with it in all others version of suse. Anybody have any idea what's going on on this suse 9.3.
thanks in advance
jorge
hmmm, I do not understand what that has to do with "Portable KMail", the subject of your post. Please clarify!
In any case, do a YOU update to get the latest versions, your problem might be solved already.
Yes, I have Updated every thing with YOU. Problem remains regards jorge
Regards, Matt
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