On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Newsmirror wrote: > > Hi. > > Having worked with XMail filters extensively lately I have come across > two things that I would like to put on my wishlist for a future XMail > version; > > > > Logging. > > There are presently no logging whatsoever for filter actions. > For the sake of debugging this would help *alot* if something about > filter actions got into smail-** the way "external"s EXTRN does. And > this in any case, even if the filter had a runtime error/broken path. > Ultimately cool would be if the exitcode found its way in there aswell. > > I have spent numerous hours, scratching my head wondering why the hell > filter X fails to work seemingly whatever I try. Is it due to a broken > path, a runtime error or a malformed tab. At current, time consuming > trial n' error is the only way to find out. Getting some info from > the smail logs would help alot here. > > > > The filter tab lookup order. > > Currently you can have [EMAIL PROTECTED] , "domain.tab" and ".tab". > Dealing every now and then with subdomains I felt there's a gap in > the lookup order. Say I got ten subdomains handled for domain "baz", > I would then like to be able apply them all to the baz.tab instead of > creating ten identical tabs. What I am proposing is a lookup order > as follows; > > 1. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 2. foo.bar.baz.tab > 3. bar.baz.tab > 4. baz.tab > 5. .tab
I have work to do on filter. I'll put this in my queue and will see what happens ... - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
