In short: I've customized the code to handle a specific scenario that we have. I know that ASSP has the ability to load plugins. Is there a current way, or a way that the core can be extended, to check a folder for a custom written plugin that I could write? This would will allow us to have customizations to ASSP that would outlive updates. This way I could customize to my heart's content and simply replace assp.pl for updates instead of having to manually change the code each time.
The specifics: Over the years I've found a need for our non-profit to customize ASSP specific to our needs. We have a handful of people using blackberries through the carrier's servers. Essentially email is forwarded to their blackberries from our SMTP server. Sent messages from the blackberries use a spoofed from address and are sent out using their servers. It works, but it's not graceful. In the non-profit world, we've been forced to work with what we've got.... I needed to accomplish two things: 1) When a blackberry user sends a mail to someone, we needed a way to get that to address on the whitelist even though it wasn't being sent out from our server. That way replies would add to the not spam corpus. 2) When a blackberry user sends a message it is bcc'ed to the user. We needed to prepend "[FROM BLACKBERRY]" to the subject of the bcc message so that the outlook client filtering could filter it into the "Sent Items" folder. (Outlook filtering stinks) To accomplish this, I made some fairly basic updates to ASSP, adding a check to see if an inbound message was from a handful of smtp servers (blackberry's) and if the to address is in our special subdomain (blackberrycopy.ourdomain.org) and if the user part of that to address matches the user part of the from address (which would be u...@ourdomain.org). If all of this matches, I have the message marked as if it's from a local ip, cheating really. This will let the message be added to the not spam corpus and whitelist any other addresses on it, including the to line. Then I modify the subject with [FROM BLACKBERRY] prepended and it works. Obviously, this isn't something for inclusion in the distribution, but we need it. I've been forced to modify ASSP each time there's an update to the core, which unfortunately means that we're usually a couple of versions behind as I'm wearing lots of hats and don't always have the time. If I could write some sort of plugin that would perform these additional steps, I'd be golden. Insight is appreciated! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Assp-test mailing list Assp-test@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-test
