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

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

the shell command action doesn't get anything on stdin, it merely runs a
command.

On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 22:23, Mika Liljeberg wrote:
> 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
>
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