[Mimedefang] filter_before

[Jonas Eckerman]

I can't remember if I've brought this up before or not...
(If I have, you have my apologies for doing it again.)

Attached is a simple but so far *mostly* *untested* patch that 
adds a filter hook to MIMEDefang. The new hook is called just 
before mimedefang.pl parses a received email into a MIME::Entity.

The reason I want this hook is that we use greylisting that 
tempfails after DATA and that I'm currently seeing a rise in the 
load on hour mail gateway. Since most of the mails that gets to 
the data phase are stopped by the greylist,I can save some 
resources by tempfailing those mails before parsing them.

Since the hook is called from do_scan() in mimedefang.pl, it 
should be possible to do most things that can be done in 
filter_begin but doesn't require a MIME entity (calling a virus 
scanner for example, or puting in a spam trap spool).

Before I go further with this I'd like some input:

* Do any of you see anything obviously wrong in the code? 
Anything that'd give me problems if I start tepmfailing or 
rejecting in the new hook?

* Is this something that might get implemented in the official 
mimedefang.pl? If not, is the basic idea ok for the official 
software, but not implemented in a way that is ok?

* Does anyone have a suggestion for a better name than 
"filter_before" for this hook?

Regards
/Jonas

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Jonas Eckerman, FSDB & Fruktträdet
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