Re: [Evolution] Running mail through an external program after reception

[Jack Coates <jack monkeynoodle org>]

On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 20:18, Jack Coates wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 20:02, Aram Mirzadeh wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Was wondering if there is a way to modify the ui files under Evolution
> > (1.2.2) to allow me to run an external program on a mail I have already
> > received.   
> >
> > I am running spamassassin 2.50 which has added Baysian filters and you
> > can teach the filters what is spam and non-spam.  I would like to be
> > able to: 
> >
> > -- Right click on a particular message and have an option that says
> > 'Spam' which should point to "|/usr/bin/sa-learn --spam --single" or Ham
> > (non-spam) which points to "|/usr/bin/sa-learn --ham --single". 
> >
> > Right now I have to save the message to a file, then switch to another
> > window and run the commands by hand. This would be a great function to
> > have. 
> Not sure about Evo, but the spam-assassin mailing list has had some nice
> discussion about how to set up fake mail accounts that you can just
> forward stuff too. This could be done completely on your local box, no
> need to recross the network or mess with ISP mail accounts.

I should clarify that the important part of the SA list discussion is
how to prevent the forwarding from mangling the message, and I seem to
recall that the trick is to make sure that SA makes suspected mail into
a mime attachment rather than mangling it directly.

Once that's done, you should just be able to put those two pipe commands
into your /etc/aliases and forward things to spam localhost or
ham localhost  Still you should see the SA archives as I haven't
actually been reading the threads closely.
-- 
Jack Coates
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