[kdepim-users] How to forward automatically mail?

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Tuesday 21 October 2008, Michael wrote:
> Hello
>
> I like to recieve messages from a remote PC to my personal account.
>
> These messages are status and health reports which are send from
> different apps to a local user on the remote PC. This PC does not
> have a MUA "just" Kmail. And a dial in connection.

I guess you meant MTA (e.g. sendmail, postfix, etc.). KMail is a MUA 
(mail user agent).


> My idea is:
> - I like to duplicate these Mails from the system user via a
> Filterrule and put this duplicat in the outbox of Kmail
> - In a second step I'd like to send and receive mail from the command
> line.
>
> Think there is something like kmail --check ...
>
> Is this possible?

If KMail is running all the time it might be possible. You need to 
create a filter matching all messages you want to forward and 
select "Redirect To" as filter action. "Redirect To" forwards messages 
as-is while "Forward To" embeds the forwarded messages into new 
messages. KMail puts those redirected messages into the outbox.

To get the messages sent you can use the following DCOP magic (all in 
one line; note that this works only with KDE 3.5; with KDE 4 some dbus 
magic has to be used):

dcop `dcop kmail KMailIface 
openComposer "kloecker at kde.org" "" "" "dummy" "dummy" 0` send 1

This embedded dcop command 
dcop kmail KMailIface openComposer "your at address" "" "" "dummy" "dummy" 
1
opens a hidden (the 1 at the end) composer window with "your at address" in 
the To field, empty CC and BCC field, and with "dummy" as subject and 
message text.

The enclosing dcop command
dcop `...` send 1
triggers sending of the dummy message in the composer. All the other 
messages in the outbox will be sent together with this dummy message.

I do not know of a way to avoid those dummy messages, but you can simply 
filter them out by their subject.


Regards,
Ingo
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