POP3 scanning?

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Sep 15 19:46:58 IST 2003


At 15:55 15/09/2003, you wrote:
>On Monday 15 September 2003 2:59 pm, Julian Field wrote:
>
> > > 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.
>
>Yes, I have discovered that my assumption that 'mbox' was the correct name
>for the file format is wrong - these are RFC822 messages, one message per
>file.
>
> > This is not a trivial thing to write, but I'm prepared to put it on the
> > "todo" list.
>
>That sounds very good.   Anything I could do to help this along?

Financial encouragement always goes down well :-)
Seriously, this will take me a while to write, so please don't expect
anything to appear in a hurry.
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Julian Field
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