On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 15:06, Justin P. Steiger wrote: > I'm a noob, therefore I "reinstall" a LOT .. I use Evolution for the > most part, but I'm really getting sick of having to fwd all the e-mailI > receive to an online e-mail account when I get ready to install again. > > How do I go about making Evolution seek it's files and folders from my > file server machine (XP)? At work we use Outlook and it seeks everything > from a central location so no matter the machine you end up up, you can > get your e-mail. Evolution stores part of the configuration files and all the mail inside the $HOME/evolution directory. You can move all those files to an external file server (either NFS or SAMBA) and then make a symbolic link. But doing so will leave some other configuration options on your local machine. Evolution also stores date alongside other GNOME applications, more concretely inside $HOME/.gconf, $HOME/.gconfd and $HOME/.gnome2. I think that, however, the easiest approach is to store your whole user profile directory ($HOME) on a remote file server, for example.
