[Mimedefang] Embedding Perl in Multiplexor -- good idea?

[Jonas Eckerman]

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 19:50:37 -0200 (EDT), scuba at centroin.com.br 
wrote:

> Maybe transcripting  mimedefang.pl to "C" ?

But... You'd still nead to load perl, and you'd still need something 
that does the perl work of mimedefang.pl. Otherwise, how would you 
run everything in mimedefang-filter?

The basic philosophy of MIMEDefang would be forfeit if we don't have 
an incredibly flexible filter config that's actually a part of a 
program written in an interpreted language.

For exmple, I'm currently trying to implement a "filter_sender" that 
will load a blacklist from a text file and rejects based on regexp 
matching. Without the flexibly programmable filter config of 
MIMEDefang I would not be able to do that.

If MIMEDefang did use a programmable filter, but not in perl or some 
other language that is interpreted/compiled at run-time, I could 
still do it. I would have to recompile parts of MIMEDefang everytime 
I change anything in the filter though. Not fun. And I wouldn't like 
having to program the filter rules in C or C++ either. Perl's quite 
well suited for this combination of program/config file, C/C++ isn't.

(The "trying" above is because I don't really know perl, so I have to 
look stuff up on the web and in perldoc all the time. I do know 
programming though, so it'll work eventually.)

Regards
/Jonas
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