[Evolution-hackers] need your opinions on adding new commandline URI

[Joey Shen <joey shen sun com>]

Hi hackers,

I've been trying to integrate Evolution mailer features to Java APIs, 
say, provide Java API with the ability to send message by evolution mail 
at the backend. We assumed that API users would experience such a 
situation: they create a message-compose UI in Java look and feel, while 
want to send the message via Evolution. So we need a method to fill the 
informations (to, cc, subject, attachments, etc.) to evolution(maybe 
camel) message object and then send it in silence.

For evolution 1.2, it could be easily done by calling the bonobo 
interface/methods Evolution-Comopser::send( ). But when I update to evo 
1.3.*, the interface couldn't be activated from outside evolution any 
more. Actually the key point here is that the folders seem have tight 
relations to the shell, so we cannot get the folder informations without 
launching the shell, which unfortunately, is a singleton.

So I'm thinking if it is possible to add new commandline URI to achieve 
such a feature. Currently "evolution mailto" commandline provides 
feature to send message with compose UI. What I want is rather similar 
except don't want UI. I've filed a bug #42577 for that feature.

I would like to have your opinions. What do you think?
Any hints to achieve the feature in other ways are welcomed too.

Thanks in advance!
-JoeyS