Re: Folders

[Carlos Morgado <chbm chbm nu>]

On Tue, 08 Aug 2000 15:17:40 Nathan Clemons wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Carlos Morgado wrote:
> > On Tue, 08 Aug 2000 14:44:29 Nathan Clemons wrote:
> > > On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Carlos Morgado wrote:
> > > 

[snip]

> > > filter could also be to clean up mail headers on a forwarded message,
> > > which would cut down on the amount of "noise" in some mailing lists and
> > > provide more "signal".
> > >
> > 
> > i still think procmail when i think mail filtering, but since balsa has
> > pop3 it might as well have filters (to avoid being incomplete).
> >  
> 
> Hmmm. Perhaps I'm using the wrong term here. In PINE, these are filters
> that take a message that has either been delivered to the system or
> composed on the system and then pass it through a set of actions before
> either sending the mail or displaying the mail.
> 
maybe we should say input filters and output filters :)

output filters are nice for some stuff, but i'm guessing a pgp4pine
type thing gets cumbersome when you want to sign an attchment, 
encrypt another, and use your other key to sign the body.
anyway, for pgp4pine a configurable "Local mail user agent" would
be enough (and usefull for other kludges)
 

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