Richard, I think you have made this more complicated than it should be. See my last reply in this thread (the one where I forgot to change the SUBJECT line from the digest...doh!).
I finally just replaced my global variable with a function. In that function I return true if the hostname matches my MX (and therefore I need to check the RECIEVED header just before that one), or false otherwise and let the processing go on as normal. I have the same algorithm as before, except I have avoided the global variable AND the messy file operations. Troy Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 11:00:30 -0700 (PDT) > From: Richard A Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] Reject vs Drop and MX > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, David F. Skoll wrote: > >> On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Troy Carpenter wrote: >> >> > 1. Turn on filter_relay and filter_recipient checking. >> > 2. In filter_relay() I do the following: >> > * Check to see if the connecting relay is local. If so, accept with >> no >> > further processing. >> > * Check to see if the connecting relay is one of my known relays... >> > that is, is it my backup MX, or my ISP's relay (I don't want to blindly accept SPAMs originating from others on my ISP). If this condition is met, then I set a RELAY flag for later use. >> >> Don't do that. Your filter will suffer random and unpredictable failures. >> See the section "GLOBAL VARIABLE LIFETIME" in the mimedefang-filter man page. > > Hrm, I though about this and came up an approach that seemed to avoid the state issues - but isn't quite robust; and I'm stumped ! > > The idea is that I set a global (and constant) variable at the top of the filter, and at return time, decide if the mail should be > rejected(direct) or discarded(via mx or mailing list) > _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
