[E-devel] imap/biff

2005-12-01 Thread Morten Nilsen
With the recent checkin of the gadget stuff in CVS, I suddenly got this idea to implement a gadget that tells you of new mail in a more clean way than the current alternative does.. so, to get started, I just wrote the code that talks to IMAP (over SSL) it works well enough, but I'd like to ge

Re: [E-devel] imap/biff

2005-12-02 Thread Nathan Ingersoll
Have you looked into embrace in the misc module of CVS? It already uses edje for it's theming and has support for a fair number of mail backends (POP3, IMAP, SSL support, mbox, etc). This could be ported to a module and save you some time implementing backends.

Re: [E-devel] imap/biff

2005-12-02 Thread Morten Nilsen
Nathan Ingersoll wrote: Have you looked into embrace in the misc module of CVS? It already uses edje I believe I did some time ago.. if embrace is the app I think it is, this iswhy I won't even consider using it; - have to manually set up which mailboxes to watch. for it's theming and has

Re: [E-devel] imap/biff

2005-12-02 Thread David Seikel
On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 15:35:31 +0100 Morten Nilsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't really care about pop/mbox/etc .. besides, who uses that crap > these days anyway? ;) Anybody with a mail account that doesn't support IMAP. Things like yahoo and gmail generally only support POP. pgpfOMCgOo

Re: [E-devel] imap/biff

2005-12-02 Thread Ramkumar R
> I don't really care about pop/mbox/etc .. besides, who uses that crap > these days anyway? ;) local mail from the system itself... cron jobs, debian update notifications on my system... many others like this still use mbox! -- WARN_(accel)("msg null; should hang here to be win compatible\n");

Re: [E-devel] imap/biff

2005-12-02 Thread Morten Nilsen
Ramkumar R wrote: I don't really care about pop/mbox/etc .. besides, who uses that crap these days anyway? ;) local mail from the system itself... cron jobs, debian update notifications on my system... many others like this still use mbox! that mail doesn't explicitly "use" mbox.. they use yo

Re: [E-devel] imap/biff

2005-12-02 Thread Morten Nilsen
David Seikel wrote: On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 15:35:31 +0100 Morten Nilsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't really care about pop/mbox/etc .. besides, who uses that crap these days anyway? ;) Anybody with a mail account that doesn't support IMAP. Things like yahoo and gmail generally only suppor

Re: [E-devel] imap/biff

2005-12-02 Thread Nathan Ingersoll
On 12/2/05, Morten Nilsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: if embrace is the app I think it is, this iswhy I won't even considerusing it;- have to manually set up which mailboxes to watch. only frontend needs implementation (and config, but that's super easy)Right now you have a hardcoded server, usernam

Re: [E-devel] imap/biff

2005-12-02 Thread Morten Nilsen
Nathan Ingersoll wrote: On 12/2/05, Morten Nilsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: if embrace is the app I think it is, this iswhy I won't even consider using it; - have to manually set up which mailboxes to watch. only frontend needs implementation (and config, but that's super easy) Right now y

Re: [E-devel] imap/biff

2005-12-02 Thread Morten Nilsen
dan sinclair wrote: replacing the #defines with ecore_config is less than 10 lines of code unless I'm forgetting something.. Ecore config dosen't handle lists as far as I know. If you want more then one server in there your boned. Maybe your system dosnen't handle this, but your coding your

Re: [E-devel] imap/biff

2005-12-02 Thread Morten Nilsen
dan sinclair wrote: and as for lists.. ecore_config does, in a sense.. just group items into folders.. Yes, you can do this, it's also a pain as you need to track the number of items you have and all that sutff. Woudl be nicer if ecore_Config supported it natively. not very troublesome to s

Re: [E-devel] imap/biff

2005-12-03 Thread Tilman Sauerbeck
Morten Nilsen [2005-12-02 06:23]: > With the recent checkin of the gadget stuff in CVS, I suddenly got this idea > to > implement a gadget that tells you of new mail in a more clean way than the > current alternative does.. The current alternative is as clean as it can be. Cheers, Tilman pgp

Re: [E-devel] imap/biff

2005-12-03 Thread Morten Nilsen
Tilman Sauerbeck wrote: Morten Nilsen [2005-12-02 06:23]: With the recent checkin of the gadget stuff in CVS, I suddenly got this idea to implement a gadget that tells you of new mail in a more clean way than the current alternative does.. The current alternative is as clean as it can be. w

RE: Re: [E-devel] imap/biff

2005-12-02 Thread dan sinclair
> replacing the #defines with ecore_config is less than 10 lines of code > unless I'm forgetting something.. > Ecore config dosen't handle lists as far as I know. If you want more then one server in there your boned. Maybe your system dosnen't handle this, but your coding yourself into a corne

RE: Re: [E-devel] imap/biff

2005-12-02 Thread dan sinclair
> > and as for lists.. ecore_config does, in a sense.. just group items into > folders.. Yes, you can do this, it's also a pain as you need to track the number of items you have and all that sutff. Woudl be nicer if ecore_Config supported it natively. > > I don't like the look of embrace..