Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2912 mails)

["Paul W. Abrahams" <abrahams@xxxxxxx>]

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?

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.

Paul