[sylpheed:35880] Re: Configure account in /etc/skel

Hiroyuki Yamamoto hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp
Mon Nov 18 14:06:51 JST 2013


Hello,

On Fri, 8 Nov 2013 13:35:34 +0100
Juan Asensio Sánchez <okelet at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have just discovered Sylpheed and I want to test the deployment in our
> company. I have tested the program in my local machine, and now I want to
> make all users have configured its account automatically. I have seen that
> Sylpheed stores its configuration some "rc"s files, but I haven't found any
> documentation about the fields there. What I need is to configure the
> accounts (full name, email address, incoming/outgoing mail servers,
> security, signature, etc.), the global LDAP address book, and some aspects
> of the UI. Where can I search documentation about the variables in those
> files? Do I need to define all fields that I currently have in my computer,
> or just the non-defaults? What I want is to put the files in /etc/skel so
> when the user first logins in the computer gets Sylpheed autoconfigured.

Every fields of configuration files of Sylpheed have their default values.
If you specify some fields, default values are automatically set for
not specified ones.

See the source code for the defalut values :)
  libsylph/prefs_common.c
  libsylph/prefs_account.c

-- 
Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp>


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