On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Mircea Ciocan wrote: > > Hi Davide, > > Will it possible to have the same functionality like Sendmail's > libmilter in the new filters framework, like total freedom of > parsing/modifying all parts of a message ( changing/adding recipients, > changing/adding headers, mangling message body and so on).
You can change all the message, you add recipients. I mean real ones not the To: header. > If so, the filters could be applied seqentially, like first filter > spam, next virii, then add a new recipient and a X-Arhive header, then > add a footer to a mesage ??? > If so, the next filters will see the alteration done by the previous > filters ??? The new way will provide sequential execution. Obviously if there's a match in sender/recipient/sip/cip > And at last but not at all at least, do you plan to implement a way to > comunicate with filters that reside on a remote machine via a network > socket and a simple protocol, some virus scanners and even spam filterin > services are quite CPU intensive and a distribution of load will be much > wellcome IMHO ??? I think there's alreay a project out there that does that. > Sorry if some of that functionality is already here, for the moment I'm > stuck with Sendmail and libmilter in doing an integrated > filtering/archiving aplication with plugins and a web interface for > configuration and I'm quite pleased with libmilter features, but next is > Xmail, that has TONS of usability features not to mention the cross OS > thingy (like best mail server for windoze, period :). > So I'd like to hear the plans for new features ( or pointers to > existing ones) to match or even ovreride libmilter's ones, or at least > were are you going to steer the filtering framework, because it seem to > me that the trend will be more and more on the filtering capabilities of > an e-mail server. XMail has the capability to invoke external program upon message receival, and those external hook can modify the message itself. The new method will give more flexibility but it's pretty much it. You don't need fancy stuff to filter messages, and if you have, you just move the complexity inside the filter. - 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]
