Re: [Evolution] Affecting Evolution from the outside

[Ettore Perazzoli <ettore ximian com>]

> Hi.
> Is there any way to tell Evolution to do stuff without using the GUI? My
> problem is that I have a dial-up connection and when I'm not connected I
> get those requesters all the time telling me Evolution can't check my
> mail account. So I simply have to change Evolutions online/offline state
> everytime I connect/disconnect to Internet. I have scripts that's
> executed when pppd goes online/offline, it would be nice if those
> scripts could tell Evolution to change state as well...
>
> (Excuse me if this is a stupid question. I'm new in the Linux world from
> the Amiga world. On my dear old Amiga I would have solved this easily
> using ARexx ;-)
>     
  Evolution exports an Evolution::Shell CORBA interface through which you can, among other things, change the online/offline status of it.  See shell/Evolution-Shell.idl.

  I don't think anyone ever used this before, but it should work.

-- Ettore