Re: [Evolution] Re: [Evolution-hackers] Scripting in evolution

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 14:48, Andy Cedilnik wrote:
> Well, several reasons. The main one is to be able to add features that
> Evolution does not have.
>
> Some of the features:
> 1. Better filters
> 2. Auto respond
> 3. Intelligent signatures
> 4. Spam removal using spam assassin or similar program and
>    virus scan of incoming mails
> 5. Better calling of external programs for doing tasks
> ...

1, 2, and 4 could be implemented by just adding a filter option to
invoke another program and write the message to that external program's
stdin. That program could then return 0 for FALSE or 1 for TRUE as to
whether the filter matches.

This filter option hasn't yet been implemented, but it's something in my
list of things to do. I think this would be a much better way of solving
those issues than scripting.

I'm not sure what 3 means... the development version can invoke scripts
for generating a signature. Maybe that's what you want? I'm not really
sure...

For 5, what kinds of things do you have in mind?

Jeff

> Also, I would like to have a text based Evolution mailbox compatible
> client, so I can ssh to machine and check mail. If there would be
> scripting support in Evolution, I could write a text client that would
> communicate through hooks in the running Evolution.
>
>
>                       Andy
>
> On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 14:06, Brian wrote:
> > Why would you want such a feature?
>
>
>
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