Hi! I got so annoyed with the undescriptive subject lines it's learning alerts ( itslearning.com ) (and my university) uses, that I wrote a Python script (attached) to take care of this.
-> I added a filter rule to pipe the mail to this script. It uses an smtp-client in python standard library to send mail to evolution, and regular expressions to get info from the contents and add to the subject line. I can help with tweaking the script, if you find use for it. Regards, Mats Taraldsvik On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 17:22 +0100, andy wrote: > Reid Thompson wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 12:20 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > > > > > Or what about 'redirect'ing the mail to yourself i.e. > > > > > > Message -> Forward As -> Redirect > > > > > > Then fill in your own address as the To: and change the subject line to > > > whatever you want. This will cause a new message to be created (which > > > is the only way of doing what you want), but will retain the rest of the > > > email intact. > > > > > > This would also be a way of dealing with removing attachments. > > > > > > Pete > > > > > > > Edit as New Message, Save Draft does create a 'new' message -- it's > > essentially a copy with modifications. The Message-id is changed > > i.e. the message id from your email > > Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Edit as New Message, Save Draft > > > > the message id from the Draft > > Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > and placing both emails in the same folder with threading on, lists the > > draft as a thread child to your email > > _______________________________________________ > > Evolution-list mailing list > > Evolution-list@gnome.org > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list > > > > > Dear Paul, Reid, Patrick & Pete > > First off, thank you very much for all of your replies and > suggestions. Those are all very much appreciated and there are a > number of pretty decent workarounds contained therein. > > My wife has seemingly stumbled on a fix that she feels comfortable > with which is a variation of something already suggested: she will > merely forward these emails to herself with the subject line she wants > that will be meaningful to her and delete the original. It's a bit of > a pain, but I will monitor some of those emails and see if there is > some way that I can (semi-)automate this process - e.g. when an email > from Companies House arrives, set a rule to forward it to her email > address and so it will pop-up waiting for a new subject line. > > Once again, thank you so much from both of us! > > You're a good crowd. > > All the best > > Andy > > -- > > "If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry > about the answers." - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow" > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-list mailing list > Evolution-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
''' Copyright (C) 2008 Mats Taraldsvik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/> ''' #!/usr/bin/python import sys, re import smtplib from email.MIMEText import MIMEText ################## VARIABLES ####### SMTPSERVER = 'smtp.server.com' SENDERADR = "Name Surname <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" TOADR = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' ################################### def send_mail (senderadr , destinationadr , subject , contents, server='localhost') : mail = MIMEText(contents, _charset="utf-8") # Set right encoding here. mail['From'] = senderadr mail['Subject'] = subject mail['To'] = destinationadr smtp = smtplib.SMTP(server) smtp.sendmail(senderadr , [ destinationadr ], mail.as_string()) smtp.close() message = sys.stdin.readlines() #read the mail that is parsed from stdin headerflag = False contentstring = '' for line in message : if headerflag : contentstring += line.strip('\n') # Collects content in a string if not headerflag : if line == '\n' : # If the last item in header list is a newline character, this works headerflag = True #regexp = re.compile(r'From:(.*)[\s\S]Title:(.*)[\s\S]Text:') #Regex to grab text #if regexp.search(contentstring).groups()[0] and regexp.search(contentstring).groups()[1] : # regex_subject = regexp.search(contentstring).groups()[1] + ' [ ' + regexp.search(contentstring).groups()[0] + ' ] ' #else : regex_subject = "It's Learning ( Message )" send_mail(SENDERADR, TOADR, regex_subject, contentstring , SMTPSERVER)
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