Re: [Evolution] Changing Evolution settings via text files

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo ximian com>]

On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 04:14, Fran Fabrizio wrote:
> I use Evolution on my Redhat 9 laptop.  I have scripts on my laptop to
> configure the laptop for my home or work network depending on where I am
> at the moment.  I would like to extend these scripts to change my
> Evolution configuration appropriately.
>
> Right now when I switch networks I have to change my smtp server setting
> as well as my IMAP server setting.  When I am at home, my IMAP server
> has to be set to localhost, because I access my IMAP server through a
> port forward set up by ssh.  So at work it has to be imap.mywork.com,
> and at home it has to be localhost.  And then I have to change my smtp
> server between the one at work and the one for my ISP.
>
> Is there a straightforward way to do this via text file editing (I'm
> fairly good with perl so I could probably whip up a couple-line script
> to do it if I knew which files to touch)?  I dug around a bit in my
> ~/evolution/config/ area but was unsure if this was the right place and
> if so which files.
account configuration is stored in GConf, so you can use gconftool-2
command line tool to modify the configuration.

In fact, it's stored in the /apps/evolution/mail/accounts key.

cheers