Re: [Evolution-hackers] Raw access to message

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj novell com>]

Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus wrote:
> On Do, 2010-03-11 at 10:45 -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
>   
>> On 03/11/2010 09:16 AM, Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Is it possible to get raw access to an email (including header and
>>> body)? Or, if that is not possible, raw access to the body of the
>>> message?
>>>
>>> Raw access is important for me because I want to write a plugin which
>>> uses some kind of cryptography, e.g. character encoding is important to
>>> me.
>>>   
>>>       
>> You can get the raw message from a CamelMimeMessage object by writing it
>> to a stream buffer.
>>     
>
> This sounds great. I'm quite new to evolution could you give me a hint
> how to do that? I'm starting with an EMEventTargetMessage object where I
> can get an CamelMimeMessage object from. But how can I dump this one
> into a stream? Writing to a stream requires a buffer of type gchar, but
> I have a CamelMimeMessage object and I even do not know the length of
> the message. What function calls could I look at?
>   

CamelStream *stream = camel_stream_mem_new ();
camel_data_wrapper_write_to_stream (message, stream);

It's been 4 or 5 years since I did any evo hacking, so the above code
might not be quite right - but it should give you a general idea.

Jeff