Re: [Evolution] view "forwarded" status?

["Matt Price" <moptop99 gmail com>]

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Reid Thompson <Reid Thompson ateb com> wrote:
> 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...

still wondering about this -- there doesn't seem to be a column
available that gives the "forwarded" status marker -- the way e.g. one
sees and 'F' in mutt after something's been forwarded.  am i missing
this?

> > > > 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

ah, neat.

> > 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
this is great.  if you wanted to have a chance to edit the message
before it was forwarded, how would you do it?  my thought was to
filter it through either mutt or evo rather that using a built-in smtp
module -- that's why i brought up the command line.  so instead of
this last stanza you would have (sorry, i've never used ruby)
something like:

os.system('echo ' + forwarded_mail.body + '| mutt -s "' + newsubject +
'" ' + tomail)

(htat's not quite right, but i htink i could figure out how to do it properly)

anyway io'd lovet o just do that bit through evo, so that the record
would be inside evo...

m