POP3 scanning?

[Julian Field]

At 03:28 15/09/2003, you wrote:
>On Monday 15 September 2003 3:23 am, S Mohan wrote:
>
> > One such proxy exists in sourceforge called emailproxy which is a POP3 and
> > SMTP proxy. It has the capability to pipe either incoming "popped" mail or
> > outgoing smtp thro' a commandline program - either a scanner or any other
> > program. However, here I guess Mailscanner will be invoked for every mail
> > as an instance. DO not know if it would be efficient.
>
>It is not the piping I have the problem with.
>
>The question is whether MailScanner can process the file format, since the
>scanned mails won't be queue files from some standard MTA such as sendmail or
>exim - they'll be mbox files.
>
>Thanks to everyone who is suggesting various proxy programs, but this really
>is a MailScanner question I'm asking here :)

Sounds like we need support for a pseudo-MTA that puts RFC822 messages in a
directory, and places the results in another directory. It would have to be
implemented as another mailer.

This is not a trivial thing to write, but I'm prepared to put it on the
"todo" list.
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Julian Field
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