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auto printing with evolution

Asked by ukpooka

is there anyway of setting evolution to print a copy of an email from a specific email address. i have tried to do this using the rules but it will only move to another folder etc. for example evolution checks every 10 mins as soon as it recieves an email from ~~~~@~~~~~.com then it will automaticly print a copy of that email.

thanks in advance

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) said : 		#1

I don't think you can do that in standard functionality in evolution. It may be possible to write a script that polls a particular mail file every n minutes and spits the result out to the printer, but that would require a little development effort, rather than a simple button-press in evolution. You could report it as a feature request for evolution, or some enterprising expert may be able to craft a script for you.

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ukpooka (steve-sentrum) said : 		#2

Thanks for the quick reply

steve

On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 14:46 +0000, Alan Pope wrote:

> Support request #1977 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+ticket/1977
>
> Comment:
> I don't think you can do that in standard functionality in evolution. It may be possible to write a script that polls a particular mail file every n minutes and spits the result out to the printer, but that would require a little development effort, rather than a simple button-press in evolution. You could report it as a feature request for evolution, or some enterprising expert may be able to craft a script for you.

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Danny Staple (danny-orionrobots) said : 		#3

I cannot help but wander if gbiff/kbiff or procmail could be used as part of a solution to acheive this? You would still have to format it for print.

I see we have this package, http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/gnome/mail-notification which is kind of similar.

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