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* Peter da Silva <peter@xxxxxxx.xxx> [2006-03-21 13:55]: >> I have forever meant to write my own mail filter script and >> retire that nasty paleolithic excuse for a hack... > > Heh. > > I wrote one, then replaced it with a script to turn my simpler > and more understandable syntax into a procmailrc, after running > into one too many variant mail tentacles. > > But I'll support you to the fullest when you get a Tuit or two. Even after I tell you that I planned to have the filter be written in Perl? :-) I’m just very tired of little languages. Dealing with the vagaries of mail should be feasible enough considering that the Email::* set of modules does a pretty good job at both being easy to employ (unlike the Mail::* legacy) and having comprehensive support for email specs. So my thinking was to take a bunch of Email::* modules plus Mail::POP3Client and tie them together into some sort of DSL so that I could write filter scripts in Perl with the absolute minimal friction. Given that the script is still Perl however would mean that playing fancy tricks would be possible without pointlessly wasting effort – first to figure out the limitations of yet another arbitrarily limited crappy mini-language, then to find ways around them. I mean, it was fun when I was an eager green nerd, but I’ve been around that block enough times at this point that it’s lost its novelty. Just give me a real language and let me do what I want, thanks. * Peter da Silva <peter@xxxxxxx.xxx> [2006-03-21 16:10]: > I think a mail filter syntax really needs to be relational, > with an escape to procedural code. That's where procmail is > going in the right direction. Yeah, my thoughts exactly. > What I have is: > > [mailbox-name] > Header: glob > Header: glob > Header: /pattern/ > # the following requires both headers > Header: glob > +Header: glob > > <body>glob > > ... > > Any match in a [mailbox] section goes to that mailbox. Mmm, I was thinking about something along similar lines, only with a Real Syntax by virtue of it being a DSL. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>;There's stuff above here
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