Re: Evolution and Procmail- can they work together?

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On 13 Aug 2001 19:33:55 -0500, Jamin Philip Gray wrote:
> 
> > On 13 Aug 2001 15:00:35 -0500, 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
> > 
> > Criteria:
> > [Regex Match] [Message Header] [^From:.*(someone...)]
> > 
> > Action:
> > [Move to Folder] [junk]
> > 
> > Or at least I think that should work...
> 
> Won't that move the mails from my trusted addresses to junk?  I want
> the opposite..If it matches move to inbox, ELSE move to junk.  It's
> quite easy in procmail...I just am not familiar with Evo's handlers.
> 

doh! my bad ;-)

it's possible, but it gets a bit trickier (you need to know the internal
filter expressions).

so, I think what you actually want is:

[Expression] [(match-all (not (header-regex ("^From:.*(someone...)")))]

Or something like that at least. I need to sit down and document all the
filter commands so that Aaron can get them in the docs.

Jeff

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