Re: [Evolution] Filters...

[Paul Coene <pcoene1 rochester rr com>]

On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 17:31 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote:
> hi,
>
> Am Donnerstag, den 23.06.2005, 10:56 -0400 schrieb Paul Coene:
> > Is there any way to setup a filter to know whether or not it is
> > looking at the last message?  I'd like to perform an action, but only
> > if the current message is the last one to be processed.
>
> what is a "last message to be processed"? the last downloaded one in
> that session? please explain the context, i don't get this at all. (if
> it's the last message to be processed by the filter, you cannot set up
> the filter that finds out if it is the last message, because each
> statement is based on the other one.) :-/

My application is as follows:

Evolution filters that "play sound" currently do this asynchronously, so if I get multiple messages that want to play multiple  sounds, they end up playing on top of one another.  As a "fix" I wrote a smell program that I can pipe to using a filter that matches ALL, that plays the sound then exits.  This works, as the "pipe-to-program" IS synchronous.  However... each sound that plays delays the rest of mail retrieval.....

So, what I want to do is change my filter to just add commands to a script file each time a sound is to be played.  This way mail retrieval is fast... but I have no way of knowing when mail retrieval is done, to run the script.  I'd like to be able to check in a filter if the message being processed is the last one downloaded in the current session so I can run the script.

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