Appendix B. Resource Files

Application Configuration Files

Like almost every other application Cronos II -0.2.2-22 keeps a set of configuration files under your local directory. Cronos II does not install any system wide configuration files.

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This is the main configure directory. It contains your mailboxes, uidl (for mail servers), and other configuration specific information

  1. .mbx : are your mailboxes

    each of these directories has an index and a numbered series of mail files in human readable format

  2. uidl : a series of identifying numbers used when connecting to mail servers.

  3. cronos.conf : a very important file that Cronos II reads when it's starting up. Here are all your mailbox details and sequence, account details and so on. This file contains sensitive information don't leave it lying about

  4. finally there is cronos.rc : this is used by Gnome/GTK and eventually your window manager to set up the GUI for Cronos II (and other things I suspect.)

While it is possible to hand edit these files it is not recommended.

There are some other "hidden" files for Cronos II on your system where they are depends on Gconf and Gnome to some extent but a quick browse through .gnome should find conf files for Cronos II , the cronosII-address-book, and any or or of the plugins.