Re: [Evolution] Scripting Evolution User Configuration

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj novell com>]

On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 08:45, Murray Trainer wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> We are currently using Evolution 1.4 on Suse 9.1.  We create our users 
> using a Webmin module which creates the users account, home directory, 
> IMAP folders etc, and can then run a script afterwards to do further 
> user customization.   Any suggestions on the best way of configuring 
> Evolution user settings (SMTP,IMAP servers,LDAP addressbooks, etc) using 
> a script.  Evolution 1.4 doesn't appear to be able to use variables in 
> its configuration files which might partially solve the problem (using 
> $LOGNAME etc).  I had a bit of a look at gconftool2 and seems like a 
> possible solution.  I found a sample script that can be set to run when 
> a user logs in to setup their signature:
>
>  http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/118
>
> but gconftool2 doesn't appear to be able to configure a user's settings 
> unless you are logged in as that user (please correct me if I am 
> wrong).   I don't really want to resort to modifying the Evolution 
> config files using perl but it may be my only option.  Some of the 
> config files contain timestamps and encypted passwords so it might be 
> pretty messy.  I haven't managed to solve the dependeny issues with 
> Evolution 2.x to get it running on Suse 9.1 (subject of a future 
> posting?).   Is a solution to my problem likely to be any better or 
> worse with Evolution 2.x? 

likely to be exactly the same. we still use gconf.

Jeff