Re: [Evolution-hackers] Setting up mailing list contact?

[Sivaiah N <snallagatla novell com>]

On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 11:06, Chris Toshok wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 18:51, Not Zed wrote:
> > Weird api ... why not just set a GList of EABDestinations or an
> > EABDestination itself (it can contain lists?) rather than a GList of xml
> > exports of EABDestinations? :)
> 
> Because I didn't write the api :)
> 
> really the problem the xml solves should be solved by parameters on the
> vcard attributes.  that'll fix some interoperability problems, as well
> as making it easier to deal with (it would work the way you thought it
> did initially).
> 
 Yes,having parameters on vcard attributes will be  nice.We can also
have parameters to store distribution type of each email (i.e whether
that particular email has to be kept in To or CC while sending the mail
to the list) .  eab-destination stuff can not be used in address book 
backends (as it is not available there ). In Case of groupwise we just
get list of emails while receiving the contact list from the server and
there is no way to populate the contact-list (apart from forming the xml
structure).

Thanks,
Sivaiah 
 
> > (anyway thanks for the pointer jp, i fixed the pine importer)
> > 
> > oh, what about doing aliases, can you reference other addressbook
> > entries from mailing lists, or do you have to expand them and add them
> > as lists?
> >
> > (e.g. one list references another by name)
> 
> You can do references.  If you set things using
> eab_destination_set_contact and eab_destination_set_book_uri (the latter
> needs updating to use a source uid probably.) it'll encoded a reference
> to the contact.
> 
> Unfortunately this is a disgusting part of the api.  You have to make a
> eab_destination_ call to resolve the linked contact.  This should happen
> for you automatically (using the ebook sync api), but it doesn't at the
> moment.  In fact, the code for eab_destination_use_contact doesn't even
> work at the moment, since there isn't an e_contact_load_uri call.
> 
> I'll file a bug about this.
> 
> Chris
> 
> > On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 17:01 -0800, Chris Toshok wrote:
> > 
> > > Yeah, this subject is a source of continuing depression (mostly because
> > > I haven't had the time to fix it.)
> > > 
> > > jpr's right, though, you need EABDestination.
> > > 
> > > Chris
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 13:29, JP Rosevear wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 02:51, Not Zed wrote:
> > > > > Lads,
> > > > > 
> > > > > I'm trying to setup a contact list, but i'm not sure what format to do
> > > > > it in/or have i hit a bug.
> > > > > 
> > > > > If i set the email addresses as rfc822 addresses (simple strings is all
> > > > > i've tried so far), as a list on a normal contact, they show up fine
> > > > > (well, the first 3 do).
> > > > > 
> > > > > But if i set E_CONTACT_IS_LIST on the list, i get xml errors:
> > > > > 
> > > > > Entity: line 1: error: Start tag expected, '<' not found
> > > > > foo bar baz foo net au
> > > > > etc
> > > > > 
> > > > > Bug?
> > > > 
> > > > No, I believe you have to set xml (the destination stuff) for the email
> > > > addresses, see: 
> > > > 
> > > > addressbook/gui/contact-list-editor/e-contact-list-editor.c:extract_info
> > > > 
> > > > -JP
> > 
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