Re: [Evolution] sending mail status bar's back :-)

[Jon Nall <nall pa dec com>]

hey there.
not only is the security thing a valid concern (though maybe the correct
permissions on $HOME/evolution/filters.xml would do the trick?), i woke
up this morning, and realized that my fix will execute that command for
every message received. that means if i have a "play wav on new mail"
action, and i get 20 messages, i get to hear the mail wav 20 times. i
don't know about you folks, but i'm not interested in that. 

nall, who was a bit too eager with his patch submission.


On 04 Aug 2001 11:12:04 +0200, Janne wrote:
> I could see a bit of a security problem here; if somebody could write a
> new filter (or change one you have), they'd be able to run any command
> as you just by saending you a mail...
>
> Don't gete me wrong - I can see lots of uses for being able to run
> external commands (send myself an email to turn on the VCR; send a mail
> from wherever, and get returned a mail with the latest camera image), I
> just want it to be done _safely_.
>
>
> On 03 Aug 2001 22:56:58 -0700, Jon Nall wrote:
> > so i hacked up this functionality today. my patch is in bugzilla. the
> > patch actually just lets you run any command on the system as a filter
> > action. i'm using
> > "/usr/bin/play /home/nall/sounds/newmail.wav" as my command, and
> > evolution is playing sound as i get mail with no problems. i've no idea
> > if the ximian guys will accept the patch, though.
> >
> > nall.
> >
> > On 03 Aug 2001 12:46:03 -0700, Eric Lambart wrote:
> > > Making it a filter action would be SUPER cool, but I'd be happy to wait
> > > for > v1.0 for that.
> > >
> > > Meanwhile playing a user-defineable sound (even if you had to hack the
> > > config file to specify the exact sound file for now) is pretty important
> > > to me.
> > >
> > > I'm using the mail check applet (1.1) now and keeping evolution set to
> > > manual download, so I get audio notification, but the applet seems
> > > really buggy and I'd rather let Evo handle it all!
> > >
> > > On 03 Aug 2001 11:45:39 -0700, Jon Nall wrote:
> > > > > 1. sound in evo when you receive new mail (which would be extra cool if
> > > > > u could specify your own sound as well)
> > > >
> > > > this is something i've been wanting as well. i think it should be a
> > > > filter action, so i can play different (user-defined) sounds based on my
> > > > filter rules.
> > > >
> > > > nall.
> >
> >
> >
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