[Dev] Re: Initial Mail Settings

[Brian Kirsch]

Woops,
If you name is not Donn please ignore my previous email.



Brian Kirsch - Email Framework Engineer
Open Source Applications Foundation
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On Aug 30, 2004, at 12:11 PM, Brian Kirsch wrote:

> Hi Donn,
> Can you please call me when you get this email XXX-XXX-XXXX.
>
> 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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