re: [Evolution] Re: [Evolution-hackers] Scripting in evolution



I've just implemented "fork/exec an external program to find out whether or not to filter the message" in the development branch.

Here's a screenshot:



On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 18:07, Andy Cedilnik wrote:
Ok, yes.
You can do this with fetchmail. Then you use procmail to check for
certain messages and plays music and stuff. Then you use spam assassin
which filters spam out. Then you use a whole bunch of other programs to
do other stuff. Now let me know how will Joe Average do all this?

I use fetchmail and procmail which calls spamassasin. Then I use
Evolution to do the filtering. I do not want to repeat filtering in
procmail just so that I will know when the "important" mail comes.

The thing that I want is for Evolution to work for average Joe who does
not know about anything and for advanced user like yourself.

			Andy

On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 17:12, Jennifer Pinkham wrote:
> How about using fetchmail?  Write a small perl or shell script that does
> whatever you want it to do before pulling the mail, then runs fetchmail.
> I knew nothing about fetchmail when it was first suggested to me, but
> the fetchmailconf Tcl/Tk program is a very nice interface to the yukky
> fetchmail config file.
> 
> A lot of what is being discussed in this thread is already possible
> with existing programs, scripts and libraries.  My setup accomplishes
> what most of you (on the list) have been discussing:
> 
> 1) I have a cronjob that runs every 5 minutes to pull my mail from
> the office POP3 server to my linux box.  
> 
> 2) I have my .forward file set to filter all incoming mail through a
> spam perl script called "nags". I never even see most spam, but nags
> moves all "spam" into a junkmail dir where you can later look at it if
> it wasnt actually spam.  All filter actions are logged. I think it
> supports regular expressions (does Evolution support this in its filter
> function?).
> 
> 3) I use Evolution (v1.0.4) to pull the "pre-filtered" mail from my
> local box via a local POP3 server. I assume this could be handled just
> as easily by setting up the account as "Server Type: Standard UNIX mbox"
> but I chose not to (I had a good reason why I didn't do it that way but
> it seems to have slipped my mind).



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