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

[Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net>]

On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 18:20, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> I've just implemented "fork/exec an external program to find out whether
> or not to filter the message" in the development branch.
>
> Here's a screenshot:

Ask, and it shall be given!  Thanks.  What branch will it
show up in?  1.06?

> On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 18:07, 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.
> >
> >                     Andy
> >
> > 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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> Jeffrey Stedfast
> Evolution Hacker    Ximian, Inc.
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