[Mimedefang] what are the different headers possible?

[fakessh]

On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:46:41 +0200, fakessh wrote:
> Le jeudi 21 avril 2011 09:10, Steffen Kaiser a écrit :
>> On Thu, 21 Apr 2011, fakessh wrote:
>>
>> Hi fakessh,
>>
>> please keep in mind that MIMEDefang bases on a complete programming
>> language with plenty of modules. You need to learn this language in 
>> order
>> to get the configuration work in a production environment properly.
>>
>> > changes made ​​without any result: here is my code
>> >
>> >                my $gi = 
>> Geo::IP->open("/usr/share/GeoIP/GeoIP.dat",
>> > GEOIP_STANDARD);
>> >                my ($country, $region) = 
>> $gi->region_by_name($RelayAddr);
>> >                action_add_header("X-Header-Country", "$country");
>> >                action_add_header("X-Header-Region", "$region");
>>
>> I don't use Geo::IP either (as Joseph Brennan), but I refer to the 
>> doc on
>> http://search.cpan.org/~borisz/Geo-IP-1.38/lib/Geo/IP.pm
>>
>> citate:
>>
>> "
>> ( $country, $region ) = $gi->region_by_addr('24.24.24.24');
>> Returns a list containing country and region. If region and/or 
>> country is
>> unknown, undef is returned. Sure this works only for region 
>> databases.
>> ( $country, $region ) = $gi->region_by_name('www.xyz.com');
>> Returns a list containing country and region. If region and/or 
>> country is
>> unknown, undef is returned. Sure this works only for region 
>> databases.
>> "
>>
>> Things to consider to get the code going:
>>
>> 1) MIMEDefang only knows the numerical IP the connection comes from, 
>> the
>> symbolical name stems from reverse DNS lookups, hence, I would never 
>> use
>> region_by_name() personally, but stick to region_by_addr(). 
>> Otherwise you
>> need to know how region_by_name() behaves, if you pass it 
>> "[a.b.c.d]"
>> symbolical names for IPs, that does not resolve.
>>
>> 2) region and country may be undef, hence, you ought to handle the 
>> case
>> the function does not return defined values.
>>
>> 3) open() may fail, too, you ought to handle that case as well.
>>
>> Regards,
>
> only seems to work
> $country = $gi->country_code_by_name('yahoo.com');
>
> any idea ?


I'm looking for some documentation on mimedefang: here what I've found
http://whatever.frukt.org/mdf-filter.text.shtml

Surely you advise me to completely revise the filter by looking 
carefully at this example for "good writing"

any other ideas


thanks ...