Re: [Evolution-hackers] Evolution integration into bespoke database

["Sankar P" <psankar novell com>]

On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 15:22 +0530, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote:
> Hi Kye,
> 
> I really dont understand the work you are doing and the use cases too.
> But if this is what you are trying to achieve, you can write a camel
> transport provider to do this. Evolution has two providers (SMTP and
> sendmail) which sends the mail from Evolution. In your case, it has to
> save/store the DB or whatever. The account you create should specify
> that as the provider for sending so that it works out clean.
> 
> Look into evolution-data-server/camel/providers/ for sendmail and smtp.
> You may have to create one more there for your provider.

Hmm. I guess you wouldn't need all such heavy-work. You can create an
outgoing filter which will, "pipe to a program" where you can pass it
onto your db. 

But as Srini said, I am not so clear about your usecase though.


> 
> -Srini.
> 
> On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 10:31 +1000, Kye Macdonald wrote:
> > Hello All,
> > 
> > Posted on the wrong mailing list so re-posting here.
> > 
> > We are in the process of developing an inhouse database and CRM
> > package and I want to integrate Evolution as its mail client.  ATM we
> > have the database spawning a new evolution email message with all the
> > contact details in without a problem.  What I would like it to do
> > though is once you press send have the database lift the content from
> > the email and save it.  We have a work around that picks up the mail
> > from the mail server but I would like the database to interact
> > directly with evolution.
> > 
> > Has anyone done this already or know a straight forward path to
> > achieving this?
> > 
> > regards,
> > 
> > Kye Macdonald 
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