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January 17, 2009
6:28 pm
Keith Jackson
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This is the only addon i have found that iscreases the filter actions. Does it allow creating an action to send a template to an email address?

For example when certain emails arrive and are filtered, I want to send mail to a third email address (Not the current 'from' or 'to').

Does this addon do that, or is anyone aware of one that does? And if not, can it be requested for this addon? I realize I could write a program that sends email, but I'd rather not go to all that trouble.

Thanks for any advice.

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January 19, 2009
12:46 am
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>This is the only addon i have found that iscreases the filter actions.

Custom filter actions were only recently added (by me) to the Mozilla mailnews core code recently, so this has not been possible until TB 3.0 beta 1.

>when certain emails arrive and are filtered, I want to send mail to a third email address

This is not specifically supported by the FiltaQuilla extension. There is however a filter action to launch a particular program using the operating system. If you could write an operating system batch file that could send the email that you want, then the "launch" filter action in FiltaQuilla could fire it. I don't know whether TB itself includes a call that could be made from the operating system to send a template.

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February 10, 2010
1:07 am
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Hi rkent,

I'm looking for a filter function like @MESSAGEBODY from RUN filter to pass about one to two pages of text or html message body into a file (ignore attachment) and then pass it to an external program.  That's why I reuse TB again after having putting it aside for a long time.

I seem to hear that it's in your plan now.  I can't help but wait to see it in the near future in this great addon.

Thanks. Smile

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February 10, 2010
9:04 am
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"pass about one to two pages of text or html message body into a file (ignore attachment)"

I know that "ignore attachment" sounds easy, but that forces MIME processing of the message, which is an additional complication above the requirement to pass the message text to an external program. The issue of doing MIME processing of messages before filtering is a complex one, that affects the ability of filters to manage attachments. I don't see myself likely to tackle that issue in the near future, unless some agreement is reached in the base code on how to accomplish that.

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