[Kde-pim] More questions about: scripting akonadi

[Tobias Koenig]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 08:33:11PM +0200, M. Fioretti wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:35:16AM +0200, M. Fioretti wrote:
Hej,

> 1) Is email handled by Akonadi accessible by standard tools like
> procmail or fetchmail? That is, how do I change a possibly very long
> and complicated procmailrc file to deliver to mailboxes which are
> "inside" or "behind" Akonadi?
As mentioned before you can't use the standard tools to work on Akonadi
storage. Tasks like mail filtering is done by so called agents, that are
small helper applications which run in daemon mode and work on the data
in Akonadi (e.g. moving, filtering etc.) by using the libakonadi-kde.

> Ditto for fetchmail, as far as retrieving email is concerned: imagine,
> for example using it to make a local copy in plain mbox format for
> archival purposes?
These agents can listen to change notifications of Akonadi, so as soon
as a new mail arrives in the inbox, the agent can store a copy of it as
plain text somewhere on hard disc.

> 2) speaking of archives, what is the format of the akonadi storage?
> Plain text, mysql, other? And how do you back it up? (the purpose of
> the question is always to understand if and how it can be processed or
> generated with non-akonadi tools and/or backed up with normal rsync,
> tar...
Akonadi itself is just a kind of cache and unique interface to access
pim data, so most of the time it just stores temporary data in a mysql
database. The real data are kept in the filesystem as maildir, ical or
vcard file, depending on the resource you are using.

> 3) What is the status, or at least the roadmap/wish list of Akonadi
>    <-> MS Exchange integration?
We have published a Google Summer of Code task for that where a student
already applied for, lets see how the maintainers decide.
Currently the exchange resource (called OpenChange because of the
library it is using), can list folders (not sure about content).
Take a look at planet.kde.org and search for Brad Hard's blog entries.

Ciao,
Tobias
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