Re: [Evolution] [Evo] using IMAP a la Pine

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

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.
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