Now I wonder: does MIMEdefang keep state between successive runs? Is
there a way I can 'clean up' (= undefine) all variables before a run?
The workaround I now use is, that the variables in the config file are
defined without a value and then in the script I set the variable to
an empty string and check the variable for an empty value:
I would prefer to be able to remove or comment out a variable in the
config file and not having to do a 'reread' of mimedefang.
Any ideas?
My understanding is that MIMEDefang is a daemonized process with
multiple children. So a single email can actually be processed by
multiple children. So just because filter_begin ran in one child, I
believe the email can run filter_end on a completely different child.
This is covered in the man page for mimedefang-filter under MAINTAINING
STATE (included below).
If I understand your question correctly, you need either a function that
reads a text file/db file/SQL database every time you need to confirm state.
Regards,
KAM
MAINTAINING STATE
There are four basic groups of filtering functions:
1 filter_relay
2 filter_sender
3 filter_recipient
4 filter_begin, filter, filter_multipart, filter_end
In general, for a given mail message, these groups of functions
may be called in completely different Perl processes. Thus, there is no
way to maintain state inside Perl between groups of functions. That
is, you cannot set a variable in filter_relay and expect it to
be available in filter_sender, because the filter_sender invocation
might take place in a completely different process.
However, for a given mail message, the $CWD global variable
holds the message spool directory, and the current working directory is
set to $CWD. Therefore, you can store state in files inside $CWD. If
filter_sender stores data in a file inside $CWD, then
filter_recipient can retrieve that data.
Since filter_relay is called directly after a mail connection is
established, there is no message context yet, no per-message mimedefang
spool directory, and the $CWD global is not set. Therefore, it is not
possible to share information from filter_relay to one of the
other filter functions. The only thing that filter_relay has in common
with the other functions are the values in the globals $RelayAddr and
$RelayHostname. These could be used to access per-remote-host
information in some database.
Inside $CWD, we reserve filenames beginning with upper-case
letters for internal MIMEDefang use. If you want to create files to
store state, name them beginning with a lower-case letter to avoid clashes
with future releases of MIMEDefang.
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