FREQ: Rule _Program_

[Julian Field]

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write your own plugins, and examples covering per-domain
whitelists/blacklists and SQL logging of activity.

At 21:18 01/03/2003, you wrote:
>Would it be possible to, instead of having huge static rule files that
>cover, say, 20,000 different recipient accounts, have a program which
>will dynamically generate the same response?  Basically, the option
>would be that you'd tell mailscanner.conf that instead of looking in
>a rule file for the answer, you should run a certain program and it
>will generate the answer on the fly.
>
>
>I'm not sure about the exact right implementation details (put a pipe
>symbol at the end of the file name, to indicate that this is a program
>instead of a file?  or have it be something expressed in the rule file?
>etc.), but I think it might help with managing large sites where you
>want each user to have the ability to set their own options.  Otherwise,
>I can see mailscanner becoming bloated with multiple 20,000 line rule
>files.
>
>
>The program would probably want to know various things, so maybe it
>would want to be told who the recipients are, who the sender is,
>and maybe a few other details.  Not sure about that side of things.

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