Re: [Evolution] can I programmatically add things to vfolders.xml?

[Steve Litt <slitt troubleshooters com>]

On Fri, 2022-09-02 at 11:00 +0200, Wolfgang Rohdewald wrote:
> Hi,
>
> many of my mails contain support case numbers in a fixed format.
>
> I am always defining a virtual folder for each new support case
> but I want to automate this.
>
> So - if I write a script which adds a new entry to vfolders.xml,
> can I tell evolution to reload it?
>
> I could imagine that evolution reacts to some signals like SIGHUP
> or whatever but "man evolution" does not mention anything.
>
> Disclaimer: I did my best to find an answer to this in the documentation
> and elsewhere but did not find anything relevant.

I'll bet you could make new folders by by case number and create those folders using
procmail plus a simple shellscript, Python program, or if lots and lots of email, a
C program. Procmail has a way to transfer the mail to an external program for
processing before the email's ultimate disposition.

SteveT