On 30 May 2013, at 18:04, Eric A. Meyer wrote:
In my mind, the major missing features in MailMate are:
Rules (which can be added to any mailbox with actions like "move
message", "tag", "run script", etc.)
Commands (essentially scripts executed at certain events including
keyboard shortcuts)
I'm a little confused as to the difference. How are Rules and
Commands distinct from each other? If I wanted, say, to automatically
filter all incoming mail from the Mailmate Users list to a
dedicated subfolder, would I use a
Rule or a Command?
Great question. Technically, there is no difference with respect to how
MailMate handles it internally. A rule is a specialized command with a
GUI. A rule is an event (the arrival of a message in a mailbox), one or
more conditions, and one or more actions (for example, moving a
message). Commands are a bit more general with (potentially) more types
of events, in particular, it could be keyboard shortcuts. Input and
output can vary depending on the type of event and a command can run any
kind of script to do the actual work. This is intentionally vague. Don't
want to promise too much :-)
The implementation of rules is going to be based on the existing
implementation of commands, but I'm only going to expose rules to the
user at first since this is a good way to test and evaluate the
implementation of commands. As usual, no promises, I'm not even sure
I'll keep on calling it commands :-)
--
Benny
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