Re: [Evolution] Questions on expunging

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 18:08 -0500, Internaut at Large wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 18:16 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> [...]

> > That's OK. As I said earlier, you can script it outside of Evo, just not
> > inside. Make sure the script and the Evo installation agree on what the
> > various folder names are, or it could get embarassing. And of course run
> > it only when the user is online to the server (can be tricky with mobile
> > users). And be careful about concurrent access to the mailboxes, which
> > is undefined in IMAP.
>
> Why not write a script or plugin for within evolution?  There should be
> some way to do that ...

Read back to the beginning of this thread. AFAIK there is no support for
time-based scripting in Evo. If you want to look at plugins, check out
http://www.go-evolution.org/EPlugin

[...]

> I already have a diff file that adds a "move" button to my button bar,
> in between delete and junk.
>
> 419a420,423
> >       <toolitem name="MessageMove" verb=""
> >        _label="Move"
> >        pixtype="pixbuf"/>
>
> So, if there was some way to pin the MessageMove to move things, by
> invocation to a specific folder (current-old, in my description)
> something similar might be easily distributed, and maintained across
> versions. (this one is for 2.22
> evolution/2.22/ui/evolution-mail-message.xml) so, it shouldn't be hard.

I still think you'll have a hard time convincing the powers-that-be in
Evo that this is a good idea. It *may* solve one specific problem, but
it introduces a lot of noise in the design and makes the deletion model
much harder to describe.

It might be more palatable not to try and overload Delete, but to
introduce a new primitive: Archive, with the property of moving stuff
around in the way you describe. I note that Thunderbird 3 will support
some kind of archiving (no idea if it's similar to what you propose) so
maybe it's not out of the question.

poc