{"id":596,"date":"2009-01-19T12:47:57","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T17:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/?p=596"},"modified":"2009-01-19T12:49:41","modified_gmt":"2009-01-19T17:49:41","slug":"hurray-for-open-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/archives\/596","title":{"rendered":"Hurray for open source!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2001, I filed a <a href=\"http:\/\/bugzilla.gnome.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=204891\">bug<\/a> for the Evolution email client because one of the email filter actions, &#8220;forward to email address,&#8221; didn&#8217;t work.  Today, <strong>8 years later<\/strong>, it got fixed. I don&#8217;t even remember exactly what I was trying to do, but I seem to recall others telling me to &#8220;just do it with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gsp.com\/cgi-bin\/man.cgi?section=5&#038;topic=procmailrc\">procmail<\/a>.&#8221;  I know that if Apple Mail or Outlook was missing this feature there wouldn&#8217;t be a bug database to lodge the problem in the first place, but I also suspect that Mail or Outlook wouldn&#8217;t have overlooked such an obvious feature in the first place.  That&#8217;s the open source conundrum for you.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Milan Crha for finally closing it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2001, I filed a bug for the Evolution email client because one of the email filter actions, &#8220;forward to email address,&#8221; didn&#8217;t work. Today, 8 years later, it got fixed. I don&#8217;t even remember exactly what I was trying to do, but I seem to recall others telling me to &#8220;just do it with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/archives\/596\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hurray for open source!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions\/599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}