On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 16:00 -0400, Matt Hollingsworth wrote: > Hello all, > > I posted this on bugzilla, but was referred to here (actually, if I would > have known about this list I would have posted it here first…sorry). > > First, I would like to start off with the fact that I'm more than > willing to write the plugin that I'm requesting; I just wanted to make sure > I'm not redoing some work that others have already done (plus, look for some > advice on where to start).
> At the moment, with Exchange, I am able to pull mail from all my POP accounts > into a central mailbox, using Outlook's little "deliver mail here" config > option, > where "here" in this case is my exchange mailbox. > Thus, it is actually quite advantageous for me to use POP instead of IMAP, > because I only have one mailbox to keep up with and back up. Plus, the email > is cleaned off of the pop servers and stuck on my own server, > where it's backed up regularly . > > Now, this could be emulated, plugging in an IMAP folder for an exchange > folder. Basically, one could introduce the same "deliver mail here" dropdown > configuration menu into the configuration for Evolution. In this case, a > locally configured IMAP folder (or local folder of course) would be the > destination choice. Outlook's feature actually could be trivially improved > by making a per-POP-account configuration, but whatever. > > Either way, is this doable through your plugin framework? I don't know how > abstracted away the imap folders are, but it seems like it should be trivial > just to add a hook into the receive process that copies it to an IMAP folder > instead of the local storage. I noticed that you can drag and drop emails > from the local storage to IMAP folders, so the framework is there, I just > need to call it, right? \ May be you can just create a filter, which will copy/move all the incoming mails in IMAP to your Exchange Inbox. If you are specific that you want to make it a plugin, instead of trying to make a hook, etc., you can write a plugin that adds a new filter to the existing filters-list. In the configure-options for your plugin, you can make it to choose whichever folder each account should have for "deliver mail here". The plugin manual is available at http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/developer-doc/eplugin/ > > Thanks for your help :). I'm seriously itching to shedding off the last > thing that is tying me to Windows. > > -Matt > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-hackers mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers -- Sankar P Harver's Law: A drunken man's words are a sober man's thoughts Novell, Inc. Software for the Open Enterprise™ http://www.novell.com _______________________________________________ Evolution-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
