[Dev] Re: Initial Mail Settings

[Brian Kirsch]

Hi Donn,
Can you please call me when you get this email 415-240-2242.

Thanks,

Brian Kirsch - Email Framework Engineer
Open Source Applications Foundation
543 Howard St. 5th Floor 
San Francisco, CA 94105 
(415) 946-3056 

On Aug 29, 2004, at 9:31 PM, Donn Denman wrote:

> John,
>
> On Aug 29, 2004, at 12:18 PM, John Anderson wrote:
>
>> Personally I don't like adding lots of crufty environment variable 
>> code that is hard to remove from the final product and make the code 
>> ugly.
>>
>> I had done this in the past by just editing the default item in the 
>> XML and remembering not to check it in -- In 
>> parcels/osaf/mail/parcel.xml.
>>
>> This issue keeps coming up in other situations, however, and another 
>> approach would be to add debugging code that looks for a prebuild 
>> repository, named say __repositoryTemplate__ which is copied to 
>> __repository__ when __repository__ doesn't exist. That way you could 
>> make all your settings, copy the repository to the template and each 
>> time you run you'd get a copy of the template when you blew away your 
>> repository. Obviously, when the schema changes, you have to redo your 
>> settings.
> I think this is a great idea.  Humm.... I wonder if it generalizes 
> into repository layers that you can rebuild separately...
>
> - Donn
>
>>
>> John
>>
>> Donn Denman wrote:
>>
>>> Now that I'm doing a lot of mail testing, I really want a new 
>>> feature - one that sets up my default IMAP and SMTP settings even 
>>> though I'm running with a fresh repository.  Is there some way we 
>>> can get and use default data, like getenv()?  Then we could just set 
>>> up our accounts with environment variables, and we'd be ready to 
>>> test mail.  Or we could each check in a bunch of prebuilt account 
>>> settings and a test menu to activate one.
>>>
>>> - Donn
>>>
>
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