Matt Price wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Reid Thompson wrote:
>> Matt Price wrote:
>>> Is there a way to get evolution to display that a message has been
>>> forwarded?
>> you'll need to give the version of evo you're on -- pretty sure there was a
>> bug re this that has been fixed.
>
> evo 2.22.3.1 -- not 2.24 yet...
>
>>> matt
>>>
>>> ps -- even BETTER would be a script that could automate forwarding
>>> when certian keywords are detected -- this is something i might be
>>> able to do with procmail or something, but i have no idea how to do it
>>> with evolution. i'd welcome any tips.... t
>>
>> you can use evo filters to do this -- I think there was a previous
>> discussion about using pipe to program -- where program is a
>> script that does the forwarding using
>> mutt/mail/mailx/sendmail/python/ruby/perl to do the forwarding.
>>
>
> thanks ot both of you for that. i suppose i could get mutt to do this
> -- say, parse the em in python, then feed it back to mutt -- but
> better for me would be if i could pipe it back to evolution & have the
> original em marked as forwarded.
Hmmm, the filter options do not offer setting status to forwarded, but, you
could create a new label identifying 'processed' emails
and mark the forwarded emails with said label, or assign them a color, or move
them to a 'forwarded' folder, etc
> the command line seems a little
> clunky -- if i'm forwarding the whole message, it will get very long,
> and if there are quotes in there i imagine i'd be likely to run into
> syntax errors.
command line should not come into play..
see attachment ( similar processing should be available via python/other
scripting languages ).
> can i address evolution-data-server directly somehow,
> either from the shell or from a scripting language like python?
i don't know the answer to this one, perhaps someone else will respond
> i only really understand python but i cna fake it in other languages
> when i have to. appreciate any and all suggestions! thanks,
> matt
#!/usr/bin/ruby
require 'rubygems'
require 'tmail'
require 'net/smtp'
# setup to & from
#
tomail = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
frommail = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
# read in mail from pipe
#
forwarded_mail = TMail::Mail.parse($stdin.read)
# grab the original sender
# strip the domain from original sender address
#
sender = forwarded_mail.from
idx = sender[0].index('@')
sender[0].slice!(idx.to_i..sender[0].length)
# grab the send date
#
senddate = forwarded_mail.date
# populate the new header information
#
forwarded_mail.to = tomail
forwarded_mail.from = frommail
newsubject = "FW: " + forwarded_mail.subject.to_s
forwarded_mail.subject = newsubject
forwarded_mail.date = Time.now
# setup the new mail body
#
forwarded_mail.body = "On #{senddate} #{sender} said \n\n" + forwarded_mail.body
# send the mail
#
Net::SMTP.start( 'your_mail.host.com', 25 ) do|smtpclient|
smtpclient.send_message(
forwarded_mail.to_s,
frommail,
tomail
)
end
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