Re: [Evolution] open mail spool files in Evolution?

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

this is actually extremely difficult/impossible to do - the composer has
to assume that it generated the MIME message to start with, since there
may be MIME structures that it just simply cannot handle.

Jeff

On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 11:12, guenther wrote:
> [Cc'ing to Evolution list.]
>
>
> > What I am referring to is not having to perform an import through the
> > UI. Rather browsing through nautilus, or typing on the command-line, or
> > in a shell script; having Evolution open a file as a
> > mail/vcard/calendar. I am first attempting to tackle the mail type file.
> >
> > it would go like this.
> >
> > In pine export a message to a file, say rfc822.eml.
> > exit pine
> > type 
> > evolution-1.4 file:///./rfc822.eml
> > evolution open as if the user had type "evolution-1.4
> > mailto:user dom tld" but the message window is populated with the
> > To:,From:,Subject:, and body from the file. 
>
> Ah, thanks for the explanation, now I see.
>
> AFAIK this is not possible. There are some options to at least set To:,
> Subject: and Attachments when launching Evolution. I don't know of
> others though, especially the body.
>
> Maybe someone else...
>
> ...guenther
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Jeffrey Stedfast
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