R P Herrold wrote:
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Tom Allison wrote:
Can someone please explain how to use procmail to filter outbound
email? I've heard about this [rumour] a few times and would like
to at least dispell with the mythology and see what can be done
with this for real.
In a customary configuration it cannot -- procmail is part of
the mail _Delivery_ agent side, although it is possible to
torture the outbound MTA into running offerings through a
procmail handler.
The sendmail 'milter' hooks, or an inward pointing
'messagewall' are more direct ways to that end.
-- Russ Herrold
postfix has a nice write-up on Filters in their installed
documents. You can either to a pipe style of "torture" by piping
everything through a STDIN -> STDOUT like you would with procmail
or
You can set up a high port smtp listener to do all the message
transfer through SMTP protocols to another daemon, who then passes
the results back.
I am mainly looking at this as a means to gauranteed receipt from
anyone who I have started contact with (In know, In-Reply-To). It
also builds up a whitelist for future communications (not
In-Reply-To) to minimize the postential delays in filtering and
queueing up emails for confirmation requests.
I'm trying to put together some variant to tmda-filter using perl
and I got this far.... http://www.tacocat.net/howto_spam.html
I'm going to guess that you would have a lot of interesting things
to say about what I'm trying to do here. I know it's not
"perfect" but it's a start...
--
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in, and then continue to use... (=3D:]
<Deek> Mercury: Oh, an IBM. :)
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