Re: Evolution and Procmail- can they work together?

[Jamin Philip Gray <jpg2 cec wustl edu>]

> Because it's important to have a good integrated filtering solution
> rather than a half-assed hacked up fork()/exec() of procmail. Not to
> mention, can we really be able to expect the average computer user to
> `man procmail` to write some simple filtering rules? No.

Agreed.  But can Evolution's filtering system do everything procmail
can, or at least most?  For example, I've been trying to figure out
how to do the following:

:0
*^From:.*(someone somewhere\ com|another address\ com|etc etc\ com)
/var/mail/jamin
:0:
junk

In other words, I have a list of "trusted email addresses".  If a mail
is from someone in that list, it'll get delivered to my inbox,
otherwise, it'll go to my junk folder.  This is the last recipe in my
.procmailrc.

Any idea how I could to that in Evo?

-jamin

> 
> > 
> > > The reason you can't just dump mail into Evolution's folders is because
> > > it keeps a summary of them and if you append to the mbox without
> > > updating the summary files, then they get out of sync.
> > I know, but I am not sure whether I like this design. It's yet another,
> > "compatible to nothing else" mail-archiving system.
> 
> There isn't a standard and we support damn near every format. You have a
> better solution?
> 
> Jeff
> 
> > 
> > > Not to mention
> > > Evolution uses file locking, I'm not sure whether or not procmail does?
> > man procmailrc and man procmail and you will see: Dotfile locking.
> > 
> > Sorry, if something above might sound harsh. Let me assure you it
> > definitely is ment as such. Evolution for sure is a promissing approach,
> > but IMHO, it still has a long way ahead, probably longer than Ximian's
> > evolution folks might expect.
> > 
> > Ralf
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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