Re: How would this work?

Yes. It is indeed possible for you to use the IMAP camel provider to
talk to your custom server. Just have a look at how the GroupWise
provider is implemented.

See camel_provider_module_init () in
http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/evolution-data-server/camel/providers/groupwise/camel-groupwise-provider.c?rev=1.33&view=markup

which (when use_imap is TRUE) sets the groupwise camel provider store to
that of imap.

The groupwise-account-setup plugin is also a good working model for you
to base the zimbra account creation on. This has some limitations
currently which will be addressed in near future (and hence likely to
change).


--Harish

On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 15:55 -0700, Scott Herscher wrote:
> Hey all. I'm wondering if it's possible to write a custom backend for
> evolution and evolution-data-server that re-uses the IMAP camel
> provider?
> 
> I've written a custom e-book library that kinda works, and I'm getting
> started on writing a custom e-cal backend that will do calendaring.
> In the interest of time, and since the server I'm working with
> supports the IMAP protocol, I was hoping I could do something simple
> like reuse the IMAP camel-provider and use my custom addressbook and
> calendar plugins in setting the account up.  Is this possible?  If so,
> how would I do something like that?
> 
> Scott
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