Re: [Evolution] Coolest feature ever idea(TM) -- post 1.0

[Ian Wales <ian terminus ericsson se>]

This sounds very like roaming profiles (either via LDAP or HTTP).

I also feel this would be a nice feature especialy in the
office/homeworking environmet.

Ian.

On 09 Aug 2001 16:34:17 -0400, Stephen Blake wrote:
> OK, I have the coolest idea ever. At least I think so. This is
> definitely a post 1.0 feature, but it would be really cool. I think it
> would be great if Evolution could store your settings on an IMAP server
> in a special folder. Then in your preferences, you could specify get
> settings from IMAP server. That way, no matter what box you ran Evo on,
> you would always have consistent settings, vfolders, filters, etc.I
> think this would be sweet.
>
> I don't know how Evo currently stores your prefs, etc. But I believe
> it's in an XML file. So I envision some special folder on your IMAP
> server called __evo_settings__ or something similar. Perhaps you could
> even allow the user to specify the name to avoid collisions. Then inside
> that folder you would have regular old mail messages with special
> subjects like vfolders.xml, filters.xml, prefs.xml, etc. Evo would grab
> them, process as normal, and go on its happy and consistent way.
>
> The reason that I think this would be cool, is that I often use
> evolution to access my IMAP email from work or from home. I imagine
> other people do the same thing. Well, this is all fine and good, but I
> like to have the same vfolders, view settings, filters, etc. on each
> box. So whenever I change something on my evolution at work, I have to
> change the same thing at home. This little feature would alleviate that.
> What do you think?
>
> Stephen
>
>
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