[Mimedefang] Writing to an MBOX file

[Damrose, Mark]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Porter

> --On Tuesday, March 21, 2006 2:17 PM +0100 Steffen Kaiser 
> <skmimedefang at smail.inf.fh-bonn-rhein-sieg.de> wrote:

> > during filter_begin() or filter_end(), you'll have a local file 
> > './ENTIRE_MESSAGE' holding the entire message. Append a newline, a 
> > "From $Sender\n" and the content of that file to your mbox file. 
> > However, read about mbox locking, if you want to read that 
> mailbox, simultaneously.

ENTIRE_MESSAGE is what you get when you quarantine, during processing
it's ./INPUTMSG.

> I think the From line needs a little bit more info. I ran 
> into problems with a Mailman archive when I fed it to 
> Dovecot, my IMAP server, because it didn't like the 
> abbreviated From line. It thought the whole file was one big 
> message. Looking at one of my mbox files, it appears that a 
> datestamp is needed on the end of the line.


If you're going to write it yourself, you also need to worry 
about From_ quoting.

See http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/mbox.html
and http://homepages.tesco.net./~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/mail-mbox-formats.html

There are also several packages on CPAN for doing mbox reading/writing.

You may also want to see if maildir format could work for you.  It 
would be much easier to write.  Copy ./INPUTMSG to the maildir directory as
a unique filename and prepend Return-path and Delivered-to headers.