[Mimedefang] Question on placement of filter_helo & other function

[David Reta]

David,

Thanks for the help. After reading the man pages, It looks simple
enough. I assume I just need to define the functions, return what is
expected, and set MX_HELO_CHECK=yes & MX_RECIPIENT_CHECK=yes. Then
mimedefang will pickup that the functions are there and the code will be
executed. Is there anything I might be missing?

Also I see that filter_recipient is passed $recipients. What happens if
there are multiple addressess (some to a user in our domain and some not
in our domain) I need to check against? Could I cast @recipients and
process each element?

Sorry for all the questions, I just started working with mimedefang and
I find it very useful in what my company would like to implement. 

Thanks,
David 

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Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 11:27 AM
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Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] Question on placement of filter_helo & other
function

David Reta wrote:

> To combat the impersonating of our domain and IP's I am in the process

> of implementing filter_helo. Should this be placed in 
> /etc/mail/mimedefang-filter or /usr/local/bin/mimedefang.pl?

/etc/mail/mimedefang-filter.  You should **NEVER** add site-specific
configuration code to mimedefang.pl.

> On another note I will also be implementing a function that discards 
> mail sent to invalid addresses. We gets lots of spam sent to invalid 
> addresses. This will be done by keeping a table of valid smtp 
> addresses which are retreived via ldap from our domain controllers. 
> Should I call this function from filter_begin?

No; it should be called from filter_recipient.

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Regards,

David.
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