Re: [Evolution] shell command filter not sending message?

[Mika Liljeberg <mika liljeberg welho com>]

On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 04:42, Not Zed wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 11:33, Bill Anderson wrote:
> > I'm about to start playing with shell commands for certain filters. Not
> > knowing for sure, but taking a WAG, I figured Evo would send the message
> > via the command's stdin. After making a simple python script that only
> > reads mail in from stdin and writes it to another file, and it failing i
> > looked in the archives. I see that Evo is supposed to send the message
> > via stdin, but it doesn't seem to be working. 
> >
> > I use this same "test" script for other apps that send to stdin, and it
> > works fine there, so I know the script is fine (and I can run it
> > interactively and it works, taking stdin and printing it to the file).
> > Any ideas?
>
> Not really, should work.  Unless you dont have the right path to the
> shell script or something like that, or the filter chain is aborted
> before it gets to that test.

Err, no.

"Pipe to shell command" filter criterion pipes the mail via stdin. The
"Shell command" filter action doesn't.

        MikaL