Re: [Evolution] OT: Calendar format and servers

[Xavier Bestel <n0made free fr>]

Le mar 29/10/2002 à 18:25, Jean-Marc V. Liotier a écrit :
> On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 17:33, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > Mmmh .. wild dreaming of an Exchange-like extension for e.g. Courier,
> > with server-stored Evolution prefs, filters, calendars, etc.
>
> The problem with server-stored Evolution prefs is that many prefs such
> as the PGP, spellcheck, signature and HTML display component often
> depend on software and data locally installed. So while it could be
> doable, it will sometime break.

Yeah, that means well-defined (already existing) protocol for all prefs.

> The filters are already stored server-side with Sieve :
> http://www.cyrusoft.com/sieve/ . I heavily use Sieve on our mail server
> and I find it prefectly suitable for mail filtering. I have no local
> filters. I set up filters with a web front-end and that's about it. I
> recommend it, it is the perfect companion to IMAP : open you mail from
> any client fresh from its package and you always find everything neatly
> sorted.

Personaly I use procmail on the server for real filtering, because
filtering with Evo would mean maintaining a duplicate set of filters (I
mainly access my home IMAP server from 2 computers). 
But I couldn't find a way of generating coloured mails from procmail,
this *has* to be done with Evo's filters. And coloured mail is like
syntax highlighting in text editors: once you're accustomed to it, it's
hard to live without.

> As for calendaring, I've said all I had to say for now about my wild
> dreams of a good open calendaring server, but it looks like I'll have to
> be patient...