On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 17:39 -0400, David Malcolm wrote: > On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 14:24 -0400, David Malcolm wrote: > > 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! > > This is now in GNOME CVS as the module "evolution-gconf-tools" and they now have a page on the GNOME wiki here: http://live.gnome.org/Evolution_2fGConfTools Dave -- Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
