On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 18:20, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > I've just implemented "fork/exec an external program to find out whether > or not to filter the message" in the development branch. > > Here's a screenshot:
Ask, and it shall be given! Thanks. What branch will it show up in? 1.06? > On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 18:07, Andy Cedilnik wrote: > > > Ok, yes. > > You can do this with fetchmail. Then you use procmail to check for > > certain messages and plays music and stuff. Then you use spam assassin > > which filters spam out. Then you use a whole bunch of other programs to > > do other stuff. Now let me know how will Joe Average do all this? > > > > I use fetchmail and procmail which calls spamassasin. Then I use > > Evolution to do the filtering. I do not want to repeat filtering in > > procmail just so that I will know when the "important" mail comes. > > > > The thing that I want is for Evolution to work for average Joe who does > > not know about anything and for advanced user like yourself. > > > > Andy > > > > On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 17:12, Jennifer Pinkham wrote: > > > How about using fetchmail? Write a small perl or shell script that does > > > whatever you want it to do before pulling the mail, then runs fetchmail. > > > I knew nothing about fetchmail when it was first suggested to me, but > > > the fetchmailconf Tcl/Tk program is a very nice interface to the yukky > > > fetchmail config file. > > > > > > A lot of what is being discussed in this thread is already possible > > > with existing programs, scripts and libraries. My setup accomplishes > > > what most of you (on the list) have been discussing: > > > > > > 1) I have a cronjob that runs every 5 minutes to pull my mail from > > > the office POP3 server to my linux box. > > > > > > 2) I have my .forward file set to filter all incoming mail through a > > > spam perl script called "nags". I never even see most spam, but nags > > > moves all "spam" into a junkmail dir where you can later look at it if > > > it wasnt actually spam. All filter actions are logged. I think it > > > supports regular expressions (does Evolution support this in its filter > > > function?). > > > > > > 3) I use Evolution (v1.0.4) to pull the "pre-filtered" mail from my > > > local box via a local POP3 server. I assume this could be handled just > > > as easily by setting up the account as "Server Type: Standard UNIX mbox" > > > but I chose not to (I had a good reason why I didn't do it that way but > > > it seems to have slipped my mind). > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > > Jeffrey Stedfast > Evolution Hacker Ximian, Inc. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ximian.com -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81 | | | | You ask us the same question every day, and we give you | | the same answer every day. Someday, we hope that you will | | believe us... | | Donald Rumsfeld, to a reporter | +------------------------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
