Evolution auto user setup

[David Malcolm]

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