On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 15:57 +0100, Philip Van Hoof wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 15:46 +0100, Philip Van Hoof wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 13:26 +0100, Jo Vermeulen wrote: > > > > > I am looking to export emails listed in a certain folder (e.g. a TODO > > > folder) through DBUS, so a program I am developing can use it. > > > > Sounds like a good idea. > > > > > I was also wondering if Tinymail can use existing Evolution accounts? > > > > It can't reuse Evolution accounts, no. It (the framework) could be > > configured to do this, but the running-code would conflict with the > > running Evolution instance (therefore it's a bad idea to configure it > > this way, I guess) > > Hmm, depends on how you define "conflict" and what "reusing Evolution > accounts" means. > > If it means "reusing the backing store of Evolution" then it (tinymail) > would create a new file called "summary.mmap" in the directory that, on > local folders, would cause a subfolder "summary.mmap" to be displayed in > the Evolution ui and that, on remote folders, wouldn't conflict that > much (not at all) until the day Evolution would start calling its > "summary" files, "summary.mmap". > > If it means "parsing the GConf keys of Evolution and reusing the same > accounts's configuration", then yes .. you could implement a TnyAccount- > Store implementation that does this, and keep your own backing store > separate from the Evolution one. That would do I guess :-) > In neither cases would the already retrieved summary be reused (as in > tinymail both the format and the filename of the summary has been > changed). In the first case would already retrieved E-mails be reused, > when the application on top of tinymail would tny_folder_get_msg the > E-mail. That's no problem if it would have to do the summaries again. Thanks! -- Jo Vermeulen Expertise Centre for Digital Media - Hasselt University Wetenschapspark 2 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium tel: +32 (0)11 268411 email: jo vermeulen uhasselt be http://jozilla.net/
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