[Mimedefang] action_external_filter: entire contents

[Steffen Kaiser]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, TOUZEAU DAVID wrote:

> I prefer the second way explain by scanning message in INPUTMSG but i did not 
> really understand mimedefang-protocol.

The structure / calling sequence of the functions are described in man 
mimedefang-filter, the directory structure etc. in mimedefang-protocol.

> In this way, how to hook Mimedefang in order to force it to run an executable 
> program just after write INPUTMSG file, wait the execution an return back to 
> proccess
>
> What do you think if i write this code and put it in filter_end() ?
>
> if(-e "./INPUTMSG"){
>   open(MYTOOL,"/usr/sbin/mytool |") or md_graphdefang_log("Failed opening 
> mytool");
>   @result = <MYTOOL>;
>   chomp $result[0];
>     close(MYTOOL) or md_graphdefang_log("Failed closing mytool");
>   }

Well, I suppose this piece of code does not do anything useful.

David did a good job crafting the various resend_message_...() functions 
in order to bypass shell, pitfalls, etc. (it's the backend function of 
stream_by_recipient())

>> filter user can write to the backup store, you can do so right in filter()
                                                                      ^^^^^^
meant filter_begin() actually :(

>> or filter_end() directly. (see man mimedefang-protocol)

Bye,

- -- 
Steffen Kaiser
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFITiqQ5ThHZhj8SBwRAnpmAJ0TYiJJvn8PTC9veehXdFhHMY9YSgCeMTzi
1NDUbQg/OrmZO72zPSZoJ0c=
=fwxF
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----