Re: [Evolution] Modify incoming messages

[Eric Lambart <lambart got net>]

Really, Netscrape lets you do that?  Presumably Mozilla would too... I
wish I'd known that while I was still stuck using that monstrosity.
Thanks to Evo I haven't had to start Mozilla Messenger in a month or
two... and this one feature isn't enough to make me do it.  I'd rather
edit my mbox file woth vi =)

Thanks for your $0.02
--Eric

On Wed, 2001-09-05 at 08:47, David (Demo Monkey) Simmons wrote:
> With the exception of the fact that I can (and do, quite frequently) do
> this with Netscrape Messenger...
>
> Very handy for removing that oh-so-cute but exceptionally annoying
> ascci-art from sigs, etc....
>
> Just my $0.02
>
> dg
>
> Eric Lambart wrote:
> > On Wed, 2001-09-05 at 05:01, Mark Neill wrote:
> > > Not really an Evolution thing - if Evo were to start altering mail that it
> > > handled, it would no longer be an MUA, but a pseudo-MDA, since mail
> > > readers shouldn't change the mail that they receive.
> >
> > He's not talking about Evo altering the mail -- he's talking about Evo
> > letting HIM alter the mail.
> >
> > This is a feature I've really missed with my migration from Eudora.  Too
> > many people write unhelpful/unclear message subjects, or never change
> > the subject field on replies even when the actual subject of the message
> > content has changed.  Eudora would let you edit the subject to reflect
> > what the message actually means to YOU.  I can't tell you how helpful
> > this is for finding a particular message you've filed away last year.
> >
> > And there are reasonable-sounding arguments against editing the body
> > (maintaining authenticity of the message, etc.) but since anyone who
> > REALLY wanted to hack the contents of the message could do so with VI
> > (etc.), that opinion would seem hard to defend.  Yet there is _such_
> > practical purpose to being able to edit a received message--as Cyril
> > said, it's nice to remove those 10-line footer/sigs--and more
> > importantly yet, it lets you remove those five pages of #$*%@ forwarding
> > headers from the top of that occasional hilarious e-mail, so you can
> > save it in your "humor" folder!
> >
> > Mail pre-processors won't help with these issues at all.
> >
> > But in any case, Evo is under feature freeze for 1.0 so it's almost
> > pointless to discuss at the moment.  Besides, I'd expect a majority of
> > people will dogmatically insist that it "just isn't right" for an e-mail
> > client to allow you to modify incoming mail, and the programmers will
> > justifiably argue they have plenty else to do...
> >
> > --Eric
> >
> > > That being said, you
> > > may want to look into using a combination of Fetchmail and Procmail as a
> > > pre-filter to do all the message 'surgery' that you want.  Procmail is
> > > significantly more powerful than what most people use it for (dropping
> > > spam and auto-forwarding things).
> > >
> > >
> > > > I have just a little question. I would like to change the subject and the
> > > > content of some messages are receive. Say to put a subject that will fit to my
> > > > mind and at least remove footer/signatures 10 lines long.