Configuring TheBat for direct access to its mail box files

[eternalbeta]

I'm still new to Sandboxie and I'm afraid that I haven't got much experience configuring ini files so I've looked at the discussions in the forum regarding this topic for OE and Eudora but I still couldn't figure out how to configure TheBat for direct access to mail its box files while in the sandbox.

I got TheBat setup in D:\The Bat!\thebat.exe while the email files of the different email accounts (all from a single user) are in G:\Personal\The Bat\MAIL

So the next step should then be to configure the ini file:

OpenFilePath=thebat.exe,D:\The Bat!\thebat.exe G:\Personal\The Bat\MAIL
OpenKeyPath=thebat.exe,HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\RIT

However, I can't find any reference for Thebat in the registry in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ so what to do with the item below, can/should this be omitted as there is no specific reference in this segment?

OpenKeyPath=thebat.exe,HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\...........

Would this be sufficient then for the purpose as the ini file for OE has a lot more lines to it than the two lines I came up with.

Could somebody please give me a hand and shed some light on this issue?

Thanks

[tzuk]

OpenFilePath=thebat.exe,D:\The Bat!\thebat.exe G:\Personal\The Bat\MAIL

Shouldn't this be:

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OpenFilePath=thebat.exe,G:\Personal\The Bat\MAIL

(No need to put the executable filename twice.)

I can't find any reference for Thebat in the registry in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ so what to do with the item below, can/should this be omitted as there is no specific reference in this segment?

Yes, of course. If TheBat! puts nothing in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE part of the registry, then you shouldn't have to add an exclusion for that.

Would this be sufficient then for the purpose as the ini file for OE has a lot more lines to it than the two lines I came up with.

It's a lot more lines because it's for both OE and for the full Outlook. And they keep their data and settings in different places. So it's really more lines, because it's a two-in-one situation: The one checkbox for "Outlook" actually controls settings for two distinct programs.

[eternalbeta]

Tzuk, thanks very much for your suggestions. TheBat is up and running now with access to its mailbox files outside the sandbox with the following two lines in the ini file:

OpenFilePath=thebat.exe,G:\Personal\The Bat\MAIL
OpenKeyPath=thebat.exe,HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\RIT

If TheBat! puts nothing in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE part of the registry, then you shouldn't have to add an exclusion for that.

Of course, that's logical, I just wasn't sure that I missed something as the other examples which I saw all carried a reference to this part of the registry.