Re: [Evolution] Mail->Calendar proposal

[Edward Muller <edwardam home com>]

On the topic of Exchange...

I was recently at a Window .NET thing...and it was mentioned that MS Exchange 
2K can be accessed via WebDAV and XML-RPC (or something similar)...I think 
with that in place it would be possible to add a plugin/backend to Evolution 
to read MS/Exchange email/public folders/etc...It would be a lot of 
work...but It seems possible...

I played with some examples I found on msdn.microsoft.com, but could not get 
anything to work, even under windows 2k pro...But that may have been my fault 
and lack of understanding...

On Wednesday 20 December 2000  1:13 pm, Byrne Reese wrote:
> 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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