[Mimedefang] Question about lifetime of variables

Chris Masters rotis23 at yahoo.com
Sat Sep 13 14:00:01 EDT 2003


If you do use your own variables it's important to
re-intialise at the start of filter_begin (if you want
them to be stateful on a per-mail basis only).

--- "David F. Skoll" <dfs at roaringpenguin.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Jason Kontkanen wrote:
> 
> > I'm not sure if the subject is the right name for
> my question, but basically
> > what I'm wondering is how long a variable "lasts"
> in MIMEDefang.
> 
> This is partially documented in mimedefang-filter(5)
> in the section
> "GLOBAL VARIABLE LIFETIME"
> 
> If you set a global variable, it stays set until the
> slave exits, unless
> it's one of MIMEDefang's internal global variables
> (which might get reset
> for each message.)
> 
> --
> David.
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