GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 266866
Pipe mail message to external command
Last modified: 2004-11-16 00:01:41 UTC
It would be awfully nice if a user could pipe a message to an external command. Both mutt and Kmail support this, as well as most Emacs-based mailers. It's great for training spam filters, or decrypting messages, or all sorts of fun stuff. It's a quick way for people to start customizing their Evolution experience.
Evolution supports: - Pipe to command (as a filter action) - Spamassaissin (Native for "Junk" mail), including training it. - Signatures / Encryption / Decryption. So done
So NOT done. The request is for a way to directly pipe a message to a command -- equivalent to the mutt "pipe-message" function. Although it's theoretically to pipe a specific message to a command using a filter, it'd be really riduculous. You'd have to set up a filter that selects only the particular message (say, by filtering on Message-Id), then run that filter in the message's folder. I realize there's a lot of functionality built into Evolution. This request is for a way that I can extend that functionality with external commands and scripts. That's what makes Unix and Linux great environments to work with -- programs that can pass work off to other processes. Please consider implementing this feature.
marking as dup as discussed with gerardo on irc. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 233429 ***