On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > clarjon1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, > on Thu, 29 May 2008 10:13:27 -0400: > >> i was wondering if it would be possible to create a filter/regexp that >> would work in pan to filter out certain content of a mail message. > > You can't filter or score on content at all with pan. Pan's scoring > works only on the normal but limited set overview headers, so it's not > even possible to score based on all headers, let alone the content or the > message as a whole. > > Even if it did, the only existing mechanism is the scoring mechanism; > there's no method for filtering out one part of the content and not > showing it. Attachments, MIME or otherwise, do that to some extent, but > if it's text and not an attachment, even if it's a separate MIME part > with a boundary, it's shown. > > To change that would require either being a C++ coder and delving into > the code yourself, or having the necessary money to sponsor someone with > the coding skills to do it if you don't have them yourself. Elsewise, > you can file an enhancement/feature-request bug, and maybe it'll get in > eventually, but this isn't a common request, and while I may be wrong, it > doesn't strike me as something Charles is likely to take a strong fancy > to and just implement because he likes the idea, so it's likely to be > targeted "bluesky", which means, it'd be nice... someday... likely years > from now. > > So practically speaking, if you're really set on this feature and you're > /not/ a C++ coder, you'll probably want to find another news client that > either implements a feature like this already, or has a scripting > language implemented to allow expanded functionality. If you're an EMACS > fan, gnus, implemented in EMACS LISP, is an example of the latter. It's > quite possibly an already implemented feature for it, and if not, > implementing it, for an already EMACS/LISP fan, should be relatively easy. > Ok, thanks for the info. I had a feeling that since it wasn't available yet, as I couldn't find anything in any config files and such.
Thanks so much for the quick reply! I guess I'll just have to score him to 'flag' that I'll have to use the N (or ctrl-n) to get to the next message once i'm done with the REAL content of his message. Thanks again! -- Jon _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
