Closed Bug 361641 Opened 18 years ago Closed 15 years ago

Filters: Filters need to be able to trigger AppleScript script

Categories

(Penelope Graveyard :: General, enhancement, P5)

Product:
Penelope Graveyard
Component:
General
Platform:
PowerPC
macOS
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: mozilla_org, Assigned: sdorner)

References

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/418.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3
Build Identifier: 

Eudora has never had this feature and this is a good time to add it.

Reproducible: Always
Summary: Filters need to be able to trigger AppleScript script → Filters: Filters need to be able to trigger AppleScript script
*** Bug 361640 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
This would be tremendously useful for me!  I currently use a filter combined with two cron jobs running some slightly gnarly shell script to channel particular e-mail attachments to a web site.  How much better it would be to be able to send it automatically to AppleScript to handle!
I would suggest that if you could extend this on two levels
1) you should be able to execute any shell-type script provided that the interpreter is present: Perl, Python, Ruby, etc.
2) extend to all operating systems.
Assignee: mozilla-bugs → sdorner
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
(In reply to comment #3)
> I would suggest that if you could extend this on two levels
> 1) you should be able to execute any shell-type script provided that the
> interpreter is present: Perl, Python, Ruby, etc.
> 2) extend to all operating systems.
> 

I totally agree with you. This would be a great feature to have. I know the apple mail client is capable of executing applescript through a filter. How hard could it be to make thunderbird capable of executing different types of scripts?
Bug 158019 should be the core bug for this.
Depends on: 158019
This would add almost infinite functionality to Tbird, and be much more powerful than extensions. How much of a security issue would it be?
Priority: -- → P5
I suppose if this were implemented, then Tbird could run bash scripts on Linux as well?
This is implemented as part of the filtaQuilla add-on so I think I am going to mark this a 'wontfix'.

See http://mesquilla.com/extensions/filtaquilla/

If someone has a strong feeling otherwise, please re-open.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
No objections here. Thanks!
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