All: I hope this is not too off-topic, but I am struggling to make a specific Evolution Mail configuration via the terminal. More specifically, because I once in a while distro hop or change machines, it is relatively common for me to have to setup my evolution manually via the GUI and/or dconf. To automate this process I am creating a script that, among other things, set the fields I want to personalize in org.gnome.evolution.mail (as well as calendar and addressbook). All runs well, except for the fields with lists, which give me a syntax error.
The personalized configuration is stored in a bash vector and a for loop is used to feed each item to a gsettings command. A simplified version of the script is: #!/bin/bash #.... comments #.... initial setup, initialization, etc. #....large vector with my personalized settings for evolution mail declare -A MailSettings=( ['junk-check-custom-header']='true' #...zillions of personalized items ['show-headers']="[('From', true), ('Reply-To', false), ('To', true), ('Cc', true), ('Bcc', true), ('Subject', true), ('Date', true), ('Newsgroups', true), ('Face', true), ('x-evolution-mailer', false)]" ) # for loop checking the previous settings, applying the new ones, and then showing what it did for i in "${!MailSettings[@]}" do oldkey="$(gsettings get org.gnome.evolution.mail $i)" # checks the current settings for each setting in the vector gsettings set org.gnome.evolution.mail $i ${MailSettings[$i]} # applies each setting newkey="$(gsettings get org.gnome.evolution.mail $i)" # checks the modified settings printf "\e[1;34m%-6s\e[m" "$i" # prints Key-oldValue-newValue printf ": %s" "$oldkey" printf " -> \e[1;33m%-6s\e[m\n" "$newkey" done The above works beautifully to setup any configuration in evolution, except for 'show-headers', 'labels' and others that require a list as parameter. If I copy and paste the command gsettings set or.gnome.evolution.mail show-headers VALUE it works ok, but none of the many syntax variations I tried within this script worked, including creating another vector for each setting (e.g. LABELS or ShowHEADERS). My best guess is that the for loop is not substituting the vector element in away that bash understands, but after searching and reading a lot on this I was not able to find out how to do it. Any directions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Paulo evolution 3.36.1, kernel 5.6.3.2, bash 5.0.16, _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list