Comment 34 for bug 460483

True enough. I also think that the plugin api was designed more for plugins which work within evolution. This is _way_ outside the scope of this bug, but a lot of these problems could be fixed by adding something like a dbus interface to evolution. Something that would allow other programs, like the indicator applet or the clock applet, to do basic things like open and close evolution windows, changing the focus of the evolution window, or selecting folders. While I'm daydreaming, you could even add basic functionality for reading/deleting/opening messages. That way you could replicate the functionality of the "CheckGmail" applet and delete messages from within the applet without even reading them.