Re: [kde] Kmail spam filtering - Help and a note for kde developers.

On Sunday 26 November 2006 04:38, John wrote:
I thought that might be the case but where is the documentation? It might
tempt me to upgrade.

On this general subject it should be fairly easy for a knowledgeable person
to write a shell script to do this sort of thing but novices do not stand
much chance. Showing my age - my first program written in the late 60's was
in dartmouth basic using a paper tape and a teletype. That language is the
most concise, complete, easily understood set of instructions ever
invented. Later prior to the pc it was extended to include file systems,
simple formatted output and some structured constructs such as whiles and
case statements etc and run on small low powered desk top micro's eg Z80
and 6500 etc. Some of the basics were even user extendable all in 8kbytes
or less-True programming for the masses. Rather than specific scripts for
kmail as indicated here wouldn't a kde wide scripting language based on
that be a more sensible and generally more useful path to follow? Ok line
numbers and goto's are old hat but are on the other hand very easy to use
and can be understood by anybody. Following on from that Microshaft did
gwbasic. Again easily understood and capable of handling graphics. That
might eventually also be a useful further step in the right direction. The
linux scripts I'm aware of remind me of what I used to do with KED and
batch files on a dos box. A few letters to do what ever it was I wanted to
do. Productive but not easily understood by others.

John

KOffice has used a multi-scripting language extension called kross for it's
extensibility. For KDE4 it looks like that will be made more desktop wide.
This way if a plug-in for kross exists for BASIC, you can write scripts in
basic. For now it supports ECMAScript and Python.

On Saturday 25 November 2006 21:09, Philip Rodrigues wrote:
John wrote:
I need a little more explanation. Does this mean that the tags I need
are available or only in newer versions of kmail? Can somebody point me
at user documentation for these features?

Hm, I'm not sure what version these features were introduced in - I just
looked in my filter options. (I'm running recent 3.5-branch SVN). I
suspect that these features are present in all 3.5 releases. Can't
remember back to 3.4 (which it seems you're running) though, sorry.

Regards,
Philip

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