Re: Filtering

[Jules Bean <jmlb2 hermes cam ac uk>]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Axel Eble wrote:

> Apart from that I'd like to add that filtering is not limited to filtering 
> messages to arrive - just imagine a folder with 3000+ messages where you want 
> to look through the 20 or so messages you received from one person. Then you 
> have to have a filtering mechanism anyway to only show the interesting 
> messages.
> 

That's what camel's all about.

> My favourite would be to implement an API much like the perl-API xchat 
> included so anybody could write filters if they'd like to. Including a 
> procmail hook, if should be. :-)

Beware the tempation to over-complicate.  Mail filtering hardly needs an
'API'.

Jules

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