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

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

Why impossible?  We have a 'reply to message' button already.  It's just
the same thing. :)

Anyway, we don't have the feature, and no plans for it, afaik.


On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 00:54, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> 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