On Sat, 2002-05-11 at 21:30, Steve Murphy wrote:
> I've been watching this thread over the last number of days, and I can't
> help throwing in my 2 cents.
> 
> I'm pretty sure I'd be satiated on this issue for a while if:
> 
> 1. a filter could have an action of executing a specified program, and
> passing the letter to it via stdin (pipe).

I just hacked this 2 days ago...

> 
> 2. a filter could have an action of just executing a program. No pipe.
> If all you're going to do is ring a bell, why pass possibly a couple
> hundred K of data for nothing?

this has been implemented for a while in the development release. But I
think having a way to pipe the message to an external process and
reading it back from the process might be useful? I dunno, it was
suggested that I do this next.

> 
> In the future, if you guys could allow users to define sequences of
> "actions", exactly as in filters, and allow them to be applied to
> messages via adding the sequence's (macro's?) name to the "tools" menu,
> and maybe optionally a labeled button in the toolbar, this could be cool
> also.
> 
> For instance, it might be nice to automatically toss all the junk mail
> to Vipul's  Razor's reporter by way of a filter. But, if you really want
> to be sure, it'd be nice to be able to hit a button to send a message to
> the reporter once you've viewed it.
> 
> murf
> 


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