Re: Evolution and Procmail- can they work together?

["Timothy H. Keitt" <tklistaddr keittlab bio sunysb edu>]

Jamin Philip Gray wrote:

> > 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

More importantly, procmail is client independent.  It kind of sucks when 
you temporarily switch clients only to have the new client dump 800+ 
pending emails unfiltered into your inbox.  (I suppose you could 
implement a "refilter inbox" command, or better yet, "apply filter[s] to 
<folder[s]>".)

T.

>
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