Re: [Evolution-hackers] idea for relocatable url's in mailer

[Chris Toshok <toshok ximian com>]

We have a similar issue in the addressbook, where we're storing urls all
over that contain meta data that isn't updated properly on ldap server
changes.

Chris
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 18:57, Not Zed wrote:
> Not really fully formed, but it came into my head ...
> 
> - Url's internally in evolution (mail) merely reference an account,
> plus a folder.
> - they do this via a unique id which gets assigned to an account when
> it is created.
> - any access to camel is then remapped from that uid to another,
> physically based one
>   - the camel url's should lose metadata info, like filter on inbox,
> and that should be done vi
>     persistent meta-data on the store object, et
> - the alternative would be to make camel url's work the same but then
> you'd need to have all the account info part of camel.
>   - this alternative would have other advantages too, but its a lot of
> wor
> 
> The filter code, the mailer, would use these internal url's, so that
> they would automagically update when the account changes, without
> having to track and change them all the time.
> 
> Anyway i thought i'd mention it before i forgot it.
> 
> Z
>