[Evolution] Mail->Calendar proposal

[Byrne Reese <byrne blue-harvest com>]

Forgive me for some rookie questions, but I have been using Evolution and love
it quite a bit... I am quite an Evolution evangelist to my linux cohorts at
work... but I want to contribute as well.

Here is what I would like to author:
I would love for Evolution for some way to process meeting invitations from MS
Exchange (these email messages have their own format) and place the time and
date into a calendar. It would be awesome if a pop-up window could appear
allowing the user to accept or reject the meeting request.
It makes sense to me that should be some kind of plug-in and I wonder if the new
Executive Summary element (with the service listings) could accomodate this. If
so, how to write a plug-in?

Or more globally, is there a developer FAQ anywhere?

Thanks, and I can't wait to hear from someone so that I can start helping out!

Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:

> [comments below]
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Rasmussen" <mras micron com>
> To: <evolution helixcode com>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 12:30 PM
> Subject: [Evolution] Problems encountered w/ Evolution...
>
> > I am using evolution .8 on Red Hat 6.2... I've been using it for a few
> > days now, both at
> > home and at work and here are a few things I've ran into...
> >
> > 1) When I first set this up, and added my IMAP to my Mail Subscriptions,
> > it didn't automatically
> > show my Inbox - when I'd say get mail I'd get nothing.  Only a couple
> > days later when I figured
> > out the "manage subscriptions" was I able to then select the Inbox (and
> > quite a few others it
> > didn't start off with).  Are there parameters for why it would grab some
> > folders automatically but
> > not others?  I would think the Inbox is a definite start off with it
> > thing.
>
> We only list folders that are subscribed to. The reason some were
> automatically started with was because your previous mail application
> subscribed to some folders and not others (either by your own doing or by
> it's own?).
>
> > 2) When I setup filters, they are not done automatically to the messages
> > coming into my Inbox
> > under IMAP.  I have to select the messages and then apply filters -
> > maybe there is a place to
> > set this, but I haven't found it yet.  Am I missing something?
>
> Okay, the reason filters are not applied to IMAP mail is because IMAP is not
> like POP, it's more like a remote filesystem similar to the local mbox
> format that Evolution uses. You don't want filters applied to your local
> mbox when you open it and with the same logic, you don't want filters
> applied to your IMAP folders when you open them. Now, Dan Winship has some
> ideas about how IMAP *could* be filtered but I'm not sure exactly how that
> is going to work.
>
> > 3) As I read the messages in my Inbox under Imap, the # of new messages
> > which shows up
> > in bold on the folders list ( INBOX (1) ) do not decrease.  Nor is it
> > decreased when I do a Get
> > Mail and there is nothing to get.  Now if it increases the #, it is
> > updated.  Anyhow, just something
> > to add to the bug list.
>
> Yep, we're aware of this - I think Dan plans on having this working soon?
> It's just a feature that we hadn't gotten around to finishing before 0.8 was
> released.
>
> > Overall though, I am VERY impressed - this program is great, is going to
> > be the bomb once it
> > is finished.  I already like some of the features better than outlook...
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
>
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