On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 17:07, Andy Cedilnik wrote: > Ok, yes. > You can do this with fetchmail. Then you use procmail to check for > certain messages and plays music and stuff. Then you use spam assassin > which filters spam out. Then you use a whole bunch of other programs to > do other stuff. Now let me know how will Joe Average do all this? > > I use fetchmail and procmail which calls spamassasin. Then I use > Evolution to do the filtering. I do not want to repeat filtering in > procmail just so that I will know when the "important" mail comes. > > The thing that I want is for Evolution to work for average Joe who does > not know about anything and for advanced user like yourself.
Maybe Evo's Filters dialogs could become "just" a front-end for a mail-filter (doesn't have to be procmail). That way, the Evo team wouldn't be re-inventing the wheel, and those users who want more can do it themselves. Carzy idea, or judicious use of Unix's one-tool-one-function philosophy?? > On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 17:12, Jennifer Pinkham wrote: > > How about using fetchmail? Write a small perl or shell script that does > > whatever you want it to do before pulling the mail, then runs fetchmail. > > I knew nothing about fetchmail when it was first suggested to me, but > > the fetchmailconf Tcl/Tk program is a very nice interface to the yukky > > fetchmail config file. > > > > A lot of what is being discussed in this thread is already possible > > with existing programs, scripts and libraries. My setup accomplishes > > what most of you (on the list) have been discussing: > > > > 1) I have a cronjob that runs every 5 minutes to pull my mail from > > the office POP3 server to my linux box. > > > > 2) I have my .forward file set to filter all incoming mail through a > > spam perl script called "nags". I never even see most spam, but nags > > moves all "spam" into a junkmail dir where you can later look at it if > > it wasnt actually spam. All filter actions are logged. I think it > > supports regular expressions (does Evolution support this in its filter > > function?). > > > > 3) I use Evolution (v1.0.4) to pull the "pre-filtered" mail from my > > local box via a local POP3 server. I assume this could be handled just > > as easily by setting up the account as "Server Type: Standard UNIX mbox" > > but I chose not to (I had a good reason why I didn't do it that way but > > it seems to have slipped my mind). -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81 | | | | You ask us the same question every day, and we give you | | the same answer every day. Someday, we hope that you will | | believe us... | | Donald Rumsfeld, to a reporter | +------------------------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
