GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 233429
Allow message to be 'piped' to external application to run an arbitrary command against a message
Last modified: 2021-05-19 11:31:36 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).
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?
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.
Isn't this done now?
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.
*** bug 267820 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** bug 266866 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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?
no, he wants to run an arbitrary command against a message easy eplugin material
*** Bug 222468 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Same as bug #247887
*** Bug 247887 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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