Re: Piping message (was: Re: [Evolution] Any advice on Antivirus software...)

["D. D. Brierton" <darren dzr-web com>]

On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 20:36, Norman P. B. Joseph wrote:

> I wish there -were- a mechanism for piping messages to arbitrary command
> lines.  I'd love to be able to set up a button or menu list representing
> "sa-learn" commands and apply them to one or more messages.
>
> As it stands, I have to open a terminal window, run "sa-learn --spam
> --single" (which will read from stdin), open the message in a separate
> window (unless I want to change the default view for -all- my folders),
> go to "View -> Message Display -> Show E-mail Source", select the entire
> message (can't even use ^A), paste it into the terminal window with a
> right-click, optionally terminate the last line with a carriage return,
> then hit ^D in the terminal window.  Feh.  Maybe the "|" command in elm
> spoiled me.  :)

I've been reading up on sa-learn, and your way seems to be much more
complex than necessary. Why not just save the messages in question (they
get saved with all their headers) to a file, and then just do:

sa-learn --[ham|spam] --file message.txt

If you get enough false positives and negatives then why not move or
copy as appropriate the messages to a ham folder and a spam folder and
then set up a daily cron job to run:

sa-learn --ham --mbox ~/evolution/local/Ham/mbox
sa-learn --spam --mbox ~/evolution/local/Spam/mbox

sa-learn will ignore the messages it's already seen, and anyway you
could delete the contents of each folder everyday after the cron job has
run.

Best, Darren

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