[Mimedefang] maintaining state - per message custom variables

[Jan-Pieter Cornet]

On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 10:56:20PM +0200, Yizhar Hurwitz wrote:
> I have read "man mimedefang-filter => MAINTAINING STATE" section,
> 
> and I would like to ask your confirmation if I got it right.
> 
> I plan to use a custom array, that I will:
> 
> 1. clear in "filter_begin".
> 2. Optionally write something to it in "filter".
> 3. Check in "filter_end" if it is not empty, and do something.
> 
> As far as I understand, this is OK because all those functions will run 
> by the same process - is it right?

Yup, that is correct. All functions dealing with the complete email
message (filter_begin, filter, filter_multipart and filter_end) are
run in the same slave process.
 
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Jan-Pieter Cornet <johnpc at xs4all.nl>
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