Default Mail Storage Location
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Is there a way of changing this. I prefer to keep my mail on a separate (internal) drive.
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I'm not aware of any way to set this up at this time. It's for sure not a user-facing setting. I would expect this would be a feature Vivaldi mail devs would would want to implement in the fullness of time, but several mail functions would have to be entirely re-factored to make it work.
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in good ol' M2 time it was a matter of 1 line in the ini file
this is also (almost) a dealbreaker for meperhaps it would work with a junction link
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@derDay Yes. Presto and Blink are/were two very different animals.
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Thank you all. It is a deal breaker for me, no point in having pop email if you cannot easily find & backup the stored emails. So I will stick with irritating Thunderbird.
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I'm wondering if symlinks would do the trick... Haven't tried and I'm very much not an expert.
Usually on Win11 running Vivaldi Snapshot builds. Opinionated about working efficiently with email. Folders are evil | Mail workflow: receive, read, reply, mark as read, done.
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@MickBeaman said in Default Mail Storage Location:
Thank you all. It is a deal breaker for me, no point in having pop email if you cannot easily find & backup the stored emails. So I will stick with irritating Thunderbird.
Go to vivaldi://settings/mail/, under Mail Accounts right click on account name and select Reveal Data Folder.
AFAIK POP3 messages are stored there in a by Year directory structure as EML files
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@WildEnte said in Default Mail Storage Location:
I'm wondering if symlinks would do the trick
as I suggested above
as long as I use M3 only for my IMAP mails, I will try this at the weekend. but probably I have to wait for the next snapshot to see if all the things work
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@derDay sorry I didn't understand what you meant by junction link and focused on the ini file solution of M2 (which I also used back when)
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@yojimbo274064400 said in Default Mail Storage Location:
vivaldi://settings/mail/
Thanks. That helps a bit, but an un-indexed (is unindexable a word?) and deeply buried folder doesn't really make using POP worthwhile.
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@MickBeaman said in Default Mail Storage Location:
@yojimbo274064400 said in Default Mail Storage Location:
vivaldi://settings/mail/
Thanks. That helps a bit, but an un-indexed (is unindexable a word?) and deeply buried folder doesn't really make using POP worthwhile.
The email client, in this case Vivaldi Mail, should provide the indexing functionality; are you looking to create a searchable backup of emails?
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Yes, that is the idea. For reasons that I won't bore you with, I need that!
