[Mono-list] Query: Mono based Email client on Ubuntu.

[Ian Norton]

On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 02:29:29PM +0000, Jignesh Desai wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> OK, so does these good email clients ( kmail, evolution, thunderbird etc )
> allow developer to write addins/plugins in C# Mono.
> eg. (adding a custom menu or catching events like NewMail, MailRead and
> writing some custom logic )

Probably not, thunderbird and evolution do have plugins. I'm not sure about
kmail. 

For the most part you write thunderbird things in javascript but I think can
call into C library code, so you'd have to embed mono in your plugin. Not sure
how well that would play if other plugins did the same.

I've done a quick google and from the mists of the past have found:

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/Oct-04-1.html

http://psankar.blogspot.co.uk/2007/10/write-evolution-plugins-using-mono-c.html

But I don't know if this is still true

Ian
 
> Regards
> 
> 
> 
> > Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 13:42:26 +0000
> > From: ian.norton-badrul at thales-esecurity.com
> > To: jignesh_desai at hotmail.com
> > CC: mono-list at lists.ximian.com
> > Subject: Re: [Mono-list] Query: Mono based Email client on Ubuntu.
> >
> > I don't know of any mono email apps at all.
> >
> > linux has mail clients coming out if it's ears, many of them are very
> good
> > ( kmail, evolution, thunderbird etc ) so there hasn't been I think much
> of
> > a demand for a new one, let alone a new one written in c#.
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 01:14:43PM +0000, Jignesh Desai wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I am new to the list and also in world of Mono. I have been writing
> > > addins for outlook on windows platform using C#.
> > > I want to do similar in linux/mono world and need guidance.
> > > I am looking for popular and stable Email Client application that runs
> on
> > > Ubuntu and allows me to write addins applications using C# Mono.
> > >
> > > Any guidance.
> > >
> > > Regards
> >
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