[haiku-development] Re: Accessing the Mail API from scripts
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 10:05:32 +0100 (MET)
Jerry<jquill81@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> does anyone know if the API of the Mail program can be accessed via a
> script?
Mail does not export any API besides standard UI scripting abilities. I doubt
that would be sufficient for what you'd like to have.
> Since the MH/nmh program is not available (yet) for Haiku, I was
> wondering if I could achieve something similar with Mail. The idea was
> to call its functions from within scripts, pass data to it, etc. All
> from script, without accessing the GUI.
> Is it possible?
You can certainly use the Mail Kit to program a replacement for nmh, but unlike
you have Haiku API bindings for your scripting language, you would need to use
C++ for this.
OTOH, porting nmh should be pretty much trivial, I'd assume (might compile
pretty much out of the box).
Bye,
Axel.
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