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

[Bill Anderson <bill noreboots com>]

On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 11:42, guenther wrote:
> cheers();
>
> > > "Pipe to shell command" filter criterion pipes the mail via stdin. The
> > > "Shell command" filter action doesn't.
> >
> > Well then ... that's a crapper. :(
>
> Maybe a solution to that:
>
> I suppose, 'if all criteria are met' will go through all the criteria in
> the specified order and stop at the first false. So a solution would be
> pure programmers logic:
>
>   if ( i == 1 && ++i )
>     cout << " i was 1 and now is 2 ";
>
> Just define all criteria, that have to be met and as a last criteria set
> 'pipe message to shell command'. That will execute the command only,
> when all other criteria are met. Action is void, so is the return status
> of that shell command. ;-)
>
> That should do the job, although it is not obvious for non programmers.

I thought about that, but didn't know if evo filtering could do the
trick that way. I have a lot of filters, so I don't think stopping on
false would work to well for me. ;)


> > I've got the script logging when it is called. It does get called. It
> > isn't a shell script, it is a python script.
>
> So what do you expect is interpreting the shebang line, if not a shell?
> #!/usr/bin/python


I know how that works, I just wanted to be clear in the event that the
mechanism was not set up to run non-shell scripts, like you mention:

> I really assume, 'shell script' even could be 'wine msoffice'... >:->

I've seen somewhere int he archives that command arguments do not get
passed (and had verified that is true), so there may have been a "odd"
way of doing it. I'd really like to have a filter *action* that I could
pipe the message to. This, I believe, would also aid spamassassin
integration.

Though now that I know how the filtering works, I can finally have evo
filter out crap that has the same sender as recipient. I think that
should be a standard filter condition: if to == cc since those
conditions nearly always represent spam in my experience. :/

Bill
(BTW, when I do a reply-to-list on this, it winds up being the same as
reply-all :( if the list is not in the to: this seems to be the case but
I guess that's a separate issue. ;^) )

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