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Bug 233429 - Allow message to be 'piped' to external application to run an arbitrary command against a message
Allow message to be 'piped' to external application to run an arbitrary comma...
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
3.4.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
evolution[eplugin]
: 222468 247887 266866 267820 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-11-07 13:22 UTC by Jens Hardings
Modified: 2021-05-19 11:31 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---



Description Jens Hardings 2002-11-07 13:22:11 UTC
One of the reasons I keep switching to other MUAs is to perform a very
basic function: execute a program or script that takes an email message
(maybe a whole folder?) on its standard input. Mostly, I use this to
correct my spam-words databases and have a few other specific scripts that
perform some actions based on a mail message (like extracting homeworks
sent by mail into a special folder and un(zipping/tarring/etc) their
attachments).
Comment 1 Jeffrey Stedfast 2002-11-07 18:28:25 UTC
we plan on implementing our own bayesian-type spam filter, would this
be good enough? (not sure if we'll use bogomail as the backend or what).

ie, if we did this, would you still need/want this feature? and why?
Comment 2 Jens Hardings 2002-11-11 11:47:05 UTC
I would still use it for two reasons:

1. I want my mail to be accessible independent of the MUA I'm using
(be it webmail, evolution or another), so I would keep on filtering
using procmail.

2. I use some home-made scripts that need mail inputs and perform some
operations on them.
Comment 3 bugzilla.ximian.com 2002-12-19 20:32:17 UTC
Isn't this done now?
Comment 4 Gerardo Marin 2003-01-03 17:55:01 UTC
Not yet. If you see above, it's marked as future, meaning we still
don't have defined a version in which this is going to happen.
Comment 5 André Klapper 2004-11-16 00:01:28 UTC
*** bug 267820 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 André Klapper 2004-11-16 00:01:41 UTC
*** bug 266866 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Sean Quinlan 2005-03-02 21:45:27 UTC
I don't understand this bug. I have been using a filter to pipe emails
to an external application since version 1.2-ish. Isn't that
functionally what you are trying to do?
Comment 8 Not Zed 2005-05-19 07:16:39 UTC
no, he wants to run an arbitrary command against a message

easy eplugin material
Comment 9 Not Zed 2005-05-19 07:50:47 UTC
*** Bug 222468 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10 Diego Sevilla Ruiz 2008-05-29 16:37:29 UTC
Same as bug #247887
Comment 11 André Klapper 2012-06-16 12:39:41 UTC
*** Bug 247887 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 12 André Klapper 2021-05-19 11:31:36 UTC
GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of gitlab.gnome.org. 
As part of that, we are mass-closing older open tickets in bugzilla.gnome.org
which have not seen updates for a longer time (resources are unfortunately
quite limited so not every ticket can get handled).

If you can still reproduce the situation described in this ticket in a recent
and supported software version, then please follow
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and create a new enhancement request ticket at
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Thank you for your understanding and your help.