[kdepim-users] Kmail pipe through filter

[Jan Neuhäußer]

Hi,

does anybody on this list have experiences with kmail pipe through filters?

My problem is: when my filter is automaticly invoked when the mails are going to be downloaded from my pop3 account I do not get any data via STDIN. On the other hand the filter works fine when it is run manually (as described below).

I know that spam filters using the pipe through technology, so there should be a way to solve this issue. Does anybody have a solution or at least an idea?

Thanks in advance
Jan



Am Freitag, 4. März 2016, 12:51:43 schrieb Jan Neuhäußer:
> Hi,
> 
> I have some issues with a pipe-trough filter in kmail: I have created a small perl script and defined a filter that uses this script via pipe through. The documentation says, that the entire email will be passed via STDIN to the script. 
> 
> But: if the filter is invoked automatically during the download of mails from my pop3 account (I am only using pop3) STDIN is empty!
> 
> The script itself does what it should, if e. g. invoked via "KmailFilter.pl < mail.mbox", with an email saved somewhere on the disk. It also works fine, when invoked manually for a specific mail in any of my local mail folders. 
> 
> Any ideas how to get the email linked to the script when the emails are going to be downloaded?
> 
> 
> I also tried modifying the filter definition and passing parameters to the script: One may pass the name of a file which should contain the email, but this file also is empty.
> 
> 
> Here are some facts:
> 
> Kmail version 4.14.9 coming with openSUSE 13.2.
> 
> The perl script adds a "date"-header to the email, should it be missing. It takes the date out of some other header e. g. the "received"-header.
> 
> 
> Any help appreciated,
> cheers Jan
> 
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