Finally somebody... Yes, this is what I want. Andy
On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 15:13, Mark R. Bowyer wrote: > There are two kinds of "Scripting in email clients", and I think people are > getting confused between them here. I don't think *anyone* would say that > scripts in the emails should be supported - Andy says he's not looking for > javascript in mails right at the top. The idea he seems to be putting forward > is like a step beyond the folders/vfolders operations we have already. > Something like "when I get an email from my boss with URGENT in the Subject, > play this sound". You're scripting the way the mail client behaves based on > headers, but the user writes the scripts, not the sender of the emails... > > This would indeed have many very cool uses, and would be a nice addition, while > hopefully not causing any security problems beyond what we might already have > with buffer overruns and stuff. > > I for one, working for a large email-driven corporation, would immediately write > a script to look out for waves of people doing reply-to-all to a mass mailing, > and then another wave of people telling them not to reply-to-all, and then the > third wave of people telling the second wave that reply to all to say not to > reply to all just makes it worse... and have it unsubscribe me from the alias > for 24 hours automatically. God, that would be *so* cool... ;O) > > Is that what people mean? > > Ta, > --------My opinion - Not sane, intelligent or necessarily useful-------- > o o mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > /v\ark R. Bowyer http://www.bowyer.screaming.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] > `-' ------------------------------------------------------ > /"\ > \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign > X Against HTML Mail > / \ > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers > _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers