Re: [Evolution-hackers] Questions about Evolution mail/composer

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 16:35, Joey Shen wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have two questions about Evolution mail.
> 
> 1. There is a binary named evolution-launch-composer in the tools 
> directory of Evo1.2 and later. It calls interface of Evolution-Composer 
> to launch the message-composer dialog outside the mailer, and works 
> nicely for Evo1.2. But it dosen't seem to be working with Evo1.3 any 
> more. What's going on? and would this function continue to be supported 
> when Evo1.4 is offical released. If the answer is no, how can I launch 
> the composer dialog outside the mailer, could it still be done via Bonobo?

Yeah the current code will no longer work.  Some of the guys working on
the OpenOffice integration will probably be coming up with a fix before
long.  I think i said on irc (was it to you?) that it was toshok, its
federico actually ... :)

Basically the new approach, you need to get the mail component from the
shell interfaces, and then call the send_to_url() method on that
component, which will implicitly create a composer.  You can't get
direct access to the object, though you can add attachments, and set
addresses/subject via this method.

> 2. There seems to be no way to make a mailer(i.e. evolution mailer or 
> Mozilla mailer) be the default one on Linux platform. And there seems to 
> be no entry as "mail" in Gconf database, either. I wonder if there is 
> any way to know which mailer is the one being used by users?

Not that i know of.  e.g. they could also use elm, or pine, or even run
a mailer on a completely different machine, so such a setting might not
even be possible/make a lot of sense.