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

[Andy Cedilnik <andy cedilnik kitware com>]

> 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.

Well, it is kind of the same thing. With scripting I mean have a notion
of calling external programs when certain things happen and use the
output or result to do something. This is essentially number 5. Also, at
this point (Evolution 1.0.3 on my machine) you cannot execute external
program before and after you check for mail. This is useful if you want
to do POP3 over ssh or something. 

> 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...

This is what I mean.

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