Re: [I really need answers to make progress]

[Pawel Salek <pawsa TheoChem kth se>]

On 2001-07-20 17:07 Emmanuel wrote:
> to make progress further : I'd need to know how to integrate the
> filters balsa, ie where they are actually called on mailbox or
> incoming messages (I have found nothing like that in sources). What
> are the other possible invocations of filters : eg I saw the
> filter_run_dialog function, so I guess the user could launch this
> dialog and run any filter by hand ?

I guess so. 

> Other question : there are 3 flags I don't understand 
> FILTER_PLACE,FILTER_NOPLACE,FILTER_STOP (in libbalsa/private.h). What
> do they mean?

I do not know (as you could conclude from the silence here, most likely
nobody knows). The filtering code has never reached out of prototype
phase so you are on your own. Feel free to follow your imagination,
scratch existing code and do whatever you like.

> Another question is about reg. exp : I saw something about using PCRE 
> for URL parsing, I guess I'll have to use that lib too (when I have
> time to code reg exp matches :).

Basically, PCRE is Perl-Compatible Regular Expressions library. You
don't have to worry about it now: porting things from ordinary RE to
PCRE is trivial.

/Pawel
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