[Evolution-hackers] Re: query about mail account setup wizard

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

Indeed, I don't think you can.

The gui is hardcoded like that, and the backend provides no mechanism for providing more than one set of configuration for a given provider.   Because well, what you're doing isn't what providers do!

The only way i can think of is for the provider not to supply the transport at all but let the user configure smtp directly.

I think by default the smtp option should show up, and by default it should use the same hostname, so it might 'just work', but you wont be able to force a specific transport (i think the user can override it anyway?).

Other than that, it would at least require additions to the camelprovider structure, perhaps a seprate 'extra conf' and url section for each object type, although that seems like a pretty non-ideal short-term solution.


On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 22:47 +0530, Sivaiah N wrote:
> Hi,
> As i understand, mail account wizard displays the All camel transport
> providers in server type menu in sending mail tab. 
> And if a provider acts as both source and transport there is no way to
> specify any configuration  details in the sending mail tab, it uses the
> same details specified in receiving mail tab. Groupwise provider uses
> imap as source and smtp as the transport service.
> But since imap and  smtp may not be available on same server we need a
> way to specify the configuration details on sending mail tab when
> "Novell Groupwise" is selected as server type? The configuration details
> mostly will be same as SMTP ones. And if possible we want to
> automatically  fill the conf entries with details provided in receiving
> mail tab as in some cases the server can be same for both.
>
> Any ideas in what is the best way to achieve this ?
>  
> Thanks,
> Siva

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