Re: [Evolution-hackers] Accessing Evolution's data

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

well... there's no corba or anything APIs for accessing evolution's mail
folders. You'll probably have to either use C and Camel to do that or
else write your own code to scan/access them (but make sure you do
proper file locking!!).

Jeff

On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 16:12, Sean O'Connor wrote:
> I'm stuck in a mental groove, and cannot find the right googling for
> the following question:
> 
> How do I get to the data in Evolution?
> 
> I'm lost between OAF, ORBit and Bonobo (and wombat). I would like to
> be able to scan through email folders, and create todo items based on
> content criteria (ie. "please test beer taps and wireless lan at Joe's
> pub"). 
> 
> Ideally I'd like to use java as my language of choice, but could fall
> back on python, or perl (I realize C is probably the language of
> choice). I've seen mention of monkeybeans(2) for java, but the site
> seems to be down, and I can't find anything more useful on it. 
> TIA,
> 
> Sean
>