Re: [Evolution] Pipe message through shell command as filter action ?

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

It is intended for external programs to make filtering decisions, not
for the external programs to alter the message. i.e. by setting their
return code approriately.

What you want is another known-required feature which is probably on a
todo list somewhere.

On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 03:37, Tim Day wrote:
> While evolution's filters will let me "Pipe message to shell command" as
> part of it's "if..." criterion testing, the "shell command" available as
> part of the "Then" actions doesn't seem to have the message piped to it
> (or to have any command line arguments supplied e.g a file containing
> the message).
> 
> This doesn't seem to be very useful.  Am I missing something ?
> 
> [I'm using Evolution 1.2.4]
> 
> Thanks