Filter patch

[Joshua Layne]

On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:02:17 -0700, "David Koblas" <koblas at extra.com> wrote:
> Got playing around with message processing and the idea of using filter
> chains to handle the actions.  The current system of having huge functions
> in ../mail/func.inc was a little bit overboard.
> 
> The basic idea is to have a filter chain for different action types which
> can process message contents and yeild results.  In an ideal world you
> would
> have lots of filters and people writting filters.  At the moment I've
> implemented the following two:
>     * header_address
>         -- provide the link highlighter for send message (compatible
> functionality)
>     * message_display
>         -- address highlighting in text messages (compatible)
>         -- security (not finished, remove script tags, etc.)
>         -- hideImages (the "safe" mode for image display)
>         -- link higlighting for plain text (compatible)
>         -- quoting coloring (compatible)
>         -- date higlighting (new)

I like the idea of a pluggable filter mechanism - I was just wondering today whether it would be possible to have roundcube read X-spam scores and throw an icon of spam on them (maybe instead of the blue star)

sounds like this framework would suppor that type of development

j.

> I thought I would float this out to the group for some feedback while I
> continue to plug along.  The ultimate idea is to have something that when
> it
> sees an Address / Date can provide some hook functionality to pull up a
> Map/Calendar, etc.
> 
> --koblas
> 
> ps.  Also sitting in this diff is a fix to only cache in the local mysql
> messages greater than a specific size, since for some larger messages
> mysql
> was barfing.
> 
>