Paul, On Tuesday 01 February 2005 10:33, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
On Tuesday 01 February 2005 11:13 am, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Hans,
On Tuesday 01 February 2005 00:06, Hans du Plooy wrote:
On Tuesday 01 February 2005 00:03, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
Maybe it's possible to respecify the location of the mail folder (though I haven't unearthed that setting), but even if it is, that's surely the long way 'round the barn.
ln -s /extra/disc ~/Mail by any chance?
I didn't write that. I only wrote to correct the name of "~/Mail" (in the post you're actually quoting, it was spelled "~/mail").
If I were to do symlinking at all, it would probably be from a subfolder. But I'm still not satisfied with that solution, for several reasons. For instance, would Kmail get a bad case of indigestion if the symlink is to a read-only directory such as a CD? More important, I'm looking for a way to *temporarily* connect to an archive folder and choose that folder dynamically. Sure, I could create a symlink and later remove it, but as I said earlier, that's the long way 'round the barn. It requires going outside of the mailer to do the necessary twiddles. And it offends my sense of programming aesthetics.
Well, depending on what you usage patterns and aesthetic criteria, you do not necessarily need to go outside KMail, if you're willing to be a little creative. KMail filters can invoke external filters, which are a hook to executing arbitrary programs. KMail filters can be selectively placed into the Message -> Apply Filter menu and / or assigned to toolbar buttons. So if the symlink trick itself works, you can probably come up with a way to get at it from within KMail.
Paul
Randall Schulz