On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 08:48 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote: > On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Panu Matilainen wrote: > > > On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, David Malcolm wrote: > > > >> On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 14:27 -0700, Sean Bruno wrote: > >>> Was curious if anyone has seen/used any kind of auto-setup scripts for > >>> large amounts of users. I have a couple of hundred pine/mutt users that > >>> I intend to move over to evolution sooner rather than later. > >>> > >>> I would like to create their email accounts automatically, and not have > >>> to setup each one seperately as they login. > >>> > >>> Sean > >> > >> I've written some Python scripts to make it easier to work with > >> Evolution's configuration information, in the hope of automating mass > >> deployments of Evolution. > > [...] > >> I've tested this, and had it working for an Evolution 2.0 deployment. I > >> suspect the approach will break under some circumstances, and with > >> different versions of Evolution. Comments and patches welcome. > > > > Hey, this and Mark's LDAP gconf backend are a really nice start. What's > > currently missing for my environment is PERSONALIZE_SERVERNAME as there are > > god-knows-how-many different servers around the company. > Thanks; sorry about the delay in replying. >From a brief reading of the patch it looks good, but I haven't got it to apply yet. Please can you resend this as an attachment rather than inline? I tried fixing up the wordwraps and whitespace but Python hates me :-( > Oh well.. this adds optional PERSONALIZE_SERVERNAME and > PERSONALIZE_MAILBOXNAME settings to it - the mailbox name isn't > necessarily same as username. Oh and the mailbox name can contain dots in > it so the mailboxRegex also tweaked. > Didn't test this in action but based on visual inspection of the results > it seems to do what it's supposed to. Ideally we'd have a test suite to go with this; it would be nice to have it verify on "make test" that the output of personalization is as expected. > > Further todo: currently only the Mail Account entry is fixed, other places > potentially needing fixing of username and server name are Tasks-, > Addressbook- and Calendar Source. It should already fixup the username; it would be the server name that would need fixing in that case. Further patches welcome! Dave -- Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
