[Kde-pim] Mailody picking up external akonadi collections

[Kevin Krammer]

On Friday 29 August 2008, Volker Krause wrote:
> On Friday 29 August 2008 13:48:02 Thomas Gillespie wrote:
> > Well.... I was discussing this on irc. I don't have a resource but
> > apparently the restriction that only resources can create collections in
> > the root collection will be removed soon. So i plan on just creating a
> > collection and setting its mime type to be mail then storing the mails in
> > there. Will that work with mailody?
>
> Yes, Mailody will show every collections that can contain emails, ie. has
> message/rfc822 (or derived types) as possible content type.
> For the top-level collection problem: We need to review the server for all
> places that assume that there is an owning resource for a collection or
> item, since this assumptions breaks for top-level collections created by a
> non-resource. No idea yet when we will get this done, but as a workaournd
> you can use eg. a maildir resource and create a collection there (or use an
> existing one).

From a users point of it makes sense to consider your application a kind of 
importer, which means I as a user might want to simply select one of my mail 
folders as the location to import to. Like file dialogs asking for an 
existing directory as a download location.

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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