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

[Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net>]

On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 17:07, Andy Cedilnik wrote:
> Ok, yes.
> You can do this with fetchmail. Then you use procmail to check for
> certain messages and plays music and stuff. Then you use spam assassin
> which filters spam out. Then you use a whole bunch of other programs to
> do other stuff. Now let me know how will Joe Average do all this?
>
> I use fetchmail and procmail which calls spamassasin. Then I use
> Evolution to do the filtering. I do not want to repeat filtering in
> procmail just so that I will know when the "important" mail comes.
>
> The thing that I want is for Evolution to work for average Joe who does
> not know about anything and for advanced user like yourself.

Maybe Evo's Filters dialogs could become "just" a front-end
for a mail-filter (doesn't have to be procmail).  That
way, the Evo team wouldn't be re-inventing the wheel, and
those users who want more can do it themselves.

Carzy idea, or judicious use of Unix's one-tool-one-function
philosophy??

> On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 17:12, Jennifer Pinkham wrote:
> > How about using fetchmail?  Write a small perl or shell script that does
> > whatever you want it to do before pulling the mail, then runs fetchmail.
> > I knew nothing about fetchmail when it was first suggested to me, but
> > the fetchmailconf Tcl/Tk program is a very nice interface to the yukky
> > fetchmail config file.
> >
> > A lot of what is being discussed in this thread is already possible
> > with existing programs, scripts and libraries.  My setup accomplishes
> > what most of you (on the list) have been discussing:
> >
> > 1) I have a cronjob that runs every 5 minutes to pull my mail from
> > the office POP3 server to my linux box.  
> >
> > 2) I have my .forward file set to filter all incoming mail through a
> > spam perl script called "nags". I never even see most spam, but nags
> > moves all "spam" into a junkmail dir where you can later look at it if
> > it wasnt actually spam.  All filter actions are logged. I think it
> > supports regular expressions (does Evolution support this in its filter
> > function?).
> >
> > 3) I use Evolution (v1.0.4) to pull the "pre-filtered" mail from my
> > local box via a local POP3 server. I assume this could be handled just
> > as easily by setting up the account as "Server Type: Standard UNIX mbox"
> > but I chose not to (I had a good reason why I didn't do it that way but
> > it seems to have slipped my mind).

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