Re: [Evolution] help writing a simple filter/plugin

[Matt Price <matt price utoronto ca>]

On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 01:29 -0700, Sankar P wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 16:18 -0800, Matt Price wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > i switched to evolution from mutt a while back, and while i mostly like
> > that decision, i do miss some of the fine control that mutt gives you.
> > Recently two little things have been bugging me a bit, and i'm trying to
> > figure out whether i can fix them.
> >
> > 1)  i have a friend who can't read my mail if i append a gpg signature
> > -- i guess because his aging version of eudora doesn't like the way
> > evolution packages mail.  I would like to have a filter that checks if a
> > mail is going to him, and strips out the signature if he's on the
> > recipient list.  does that sound hard to do?  any pointers as to where
> > to get started?
>
> Look at
> http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/evolution/trunk/plugins/attachment-reminder/ 
>
> which is a plugin that makes use of a pre-send hook.
>
> You may have to write one similar to that.
>
> A general plugin manual can be found in
> http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/developer-doc/eplugin/ 
>
> > 2) some of my mailing lists have long names that appear at the front of
> > hte subject heading, e.g. [olpc-community-support] ; this makes it hard
> > to read the ACTUAL subject of the email.  i'd like to be able to edit
> > the way subject headings are displayed in particular views; or failing
> > that, to edit the subject headings themselves directly as the mails are
> > downloaded, as one might do in a procmail filter.  What's the likelihood
> > of being able to do one or the other with a plugin or anyway some kind
> > of code?  again, i'd really appreciate any pointers.
>
> You can try creating a filter which will pipe message to a script that
> you have written. However, I guess we should have a special column which
> will remove anything within [] 
thanks for the response, that's very helpful.  should i file an
enhancement bug for the feature you describe?

thx,
matt


> > thanks very much,
> >
> > matt
> >  
-- 
Matt Price
matt price utoronto ca