Re: [Evolution] view "forwarded" status?

[Reid Thompson <Reid Thompson ateb com>]

Matt Price wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Reid Thompson wrote:
> > Matt Price wrote:
> > > Is there a way to get evolution to display that a message has been
> > > forwarded?
> > you'll need to give the version of evo you're on -- pretty sure there was a bug re this that has been 
> > fixed.
>
> evo 2.22.3.1 -- not 2.24 yet...
>
> > > matt
> > >
> > > ps -- even BETTER would be a script that could automate forwarding
> > > when certian keywords are detected -- this is something i might be
> > > able to do with procmail or something, but i have no idea how to do it
> > > with evolution.  i'd welcome any tips....  t
> >
> > you can use evo filters to do this -- I think there was a previous discussion about using pipe to program 
> > -- where program is a
> > script that does the forwarding using mutt/mail/mailx/sendmail/python/ruby/perl to do the forwarding.
>
> thanks ot both of you for that.  i suppose i could get mutt to do this
> --  say, parse the em in python, then feed it back to mutt --  but
> better for me would be if i could pipe it back to evolution & have the
> original em marked as forwarded.  

Hmmm, the filter options do not offer setting status to forwarded, but, you could create a new label 
identifying 'processed' emails
and mark the forwarded emails with said label, or assign them a color, or move them to a 'forwarded' folder, 
etc
> the command line seems a little
> clunky -- if i'm forwarding the whole message, it will get very long,
> and if there are quotes in there i imagine i'd be likely to run into
> syntax errors.  

command line should not come into play..
see attachment ( similar processing should be available via python/other scripting languages ).
> can i address evolution-data-server directly somehow,
> either from the shell or from a scripting language like python?

i don't know the answer to this one, perhaps someone else will respond
> i only really understand python but i cna fake it in other languages
> when i have to.  appreciate any and all suggestions!  thanks,
> matt


#!/usr/bin/ruby

require 'rubygems'
require 'tmail'
require 'net/smtp'

# setup to & from
#
tomail = 'john doe someplace com'
frommail = 'jane done elsewhere com'

# read in mail from pipe
#
forwarded_mail = TMail::Mail.parse($stdin.read)

# grab the original sender
# strip the domain from original sender address
#
sender = forwarded_mail.from
idx = sender[0].index('@')
sender[0].slice!(idx.to_i..sender[0].length)

# grab the send date
#
senddate = forwarded_mail.date

# populate the new header information
#
forwarded_mail.to = tomail
forwarded_mail.from = frommail
newsubject = "FW: " + forwarded_mail.subject.to_s
forwarded_mail.subject = newsubject
forwarded_mail.date = Time.now

# setup the new mail body
#
forwarded_mail.body = "On #{senddate} #{sender} said \n\n" + forwarded_mail.body

# send the mail
#
Net::SMTP.start( 'your_mail.host.com', 25 ) do|smtpclient|
    smtpclient.send_message(
        forwarded_mail.to_s,
        frommail,
        tomail
    )
end