Re: [Evolution] [Evo] using IMAP a la Pine
- From: Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>
- To: Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk pp fishpool fi>
- Cc: evolution ximian com
- Subject: Re: [Evolution] [Evo] using IMAP a la Pine
- Date: 01 May 2002 01:05:01 -0400
On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 04:12, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
Greetings,
I'm about to perform a mass-install at a new startup, where Evolution and Opera
with OpenOffice on Debian will replace the traditional Windows applications.
I have a question relating to configuring Evolution:
Pine will be used by remote technical employees, while Evolution will be used by
traditional Windows users, so I would like Evolution to use the Pine mailbox
defaults (e.g. sent-mail, sent-messages-<month>, postponed-msgs, etc.) perhaps
inheriting relevant parts of the .pinerc as well. Recent Pine releases allow
using IMAP to access both the mailbox and the .pinerc, which I would also like
to reproduce.
You get the chance to point Evolution at the Drafts and Sent folders on
the IMAP server, so you can point them to whatever Pine mailboxes were
setup.
Is there a way to perform the above configuration trick?
Also, is there any way to pre-configure Evolution to perform batch installs?
I'd need to preset certain things like the default mail servers and grep the
user's real name and login from the global NIS/SMB distributed info, so that
making an install would not require manually creating a default mailbox profile
in Evolution.
There's no batch-installation support built into Evolution, but I don't
see why you couldn't just copy a template evolution/ directory into each
user's $HOME.
You could even look into changing $prefix/share/evolution/default_user/
which is what Evolution copies into the user's $HOME on first
invokation. This way when you add new users and they startup Evolution,
they get the config files auto-magically.
Jeff
If anyone feels this question is better suited to the evolution-developper
mailing list, or another list, please feel free to suggest so.
Regards,
--
Martin-Éric Racine, Helsinki, Finland.
http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/
+358 41 474 0289
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