general regexp based filter?

[Thijs Alkemade]

On 11 jul 2011, at 02:32, Chris Quenelle wrote:

> There are two kinds of automatic messages that I get which I would prefer
> to silently drop.  One looks like:
> 
> nickserv: (notice) You are already logged in as XXXUSERXXX
> 
> The other one looks like:
> 
> aolsystemmsg: You (XXXUSERXXX) are now signed into AOL(R) Instant
> Messenger (TM) in 2 locations. To sign off the other location(s), reply to
> this message with the number 1. Click here for more information.
> 
> I wanted to get my feet wet with Adium development, and I thought I
> might try implementing a plugin is silently ignore messages
> based on a set of regexps.
> 
> Any thoughts?  Already done?  Not possible?  Good plugins
> to look at which are doing something similar?
> 
> --chris
> 

It is not at all polished or advanced, but the basic idea is already implemented in http://adiumxtras.com/index.php?a=xtras&xtra_id=7683. Can filter on substrings or regular expressions and can also apply to authorization requests.

If you have more ideas for it, you're welcome to base something on it, of course. :)

Thijs
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