Re: [Evolution-hackers] Controlling Evo from an external program

[Tessa Lau <tlau-evolution tlau org>]

> Why don't you just setup a vfolder of all folders?

I've done that.  The problems are:

1) Full-text search over the message body is very slow.

2) I don't like having to choose between body or receipient or sender or
anything else.  Mairix has one search box, and it searches everything.
Searches are also more powerful; for example, I can combine a date-range
search with a keyword search ("all messages in March containing fruit").

3) Mairix has an option to return all threads that match a search term,
not just the individual messages.

> It just seems a very round-a-bout way of doing things.

Agreed.  But after using Gmail for a while, I got used to the
search-based interface to email.  But I also like Evolution, so I'm
trying to make it as much like Gmail as I can.  It's not there yet.  In
Evolution I still spend way too much of my time trying to locate a
particular message.

> In 1.5 you can view a specific message but thats all.  You can't do much
> else.  Like i siad, none of the api's have been designed for this.

This is a start.  I see tantalizing hints of it here:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/dashboard-hackers/2004-May/msg00011.html

How do I construct the URI?  What's my accountid?  How do I find out the
uid of a message?  If this is documented in the source, where do I start
looking?

Thanks,
--Tessa