New installation, maillog question

[Kevin Spicer]

On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 19:21, Ronnie Regev wrote:
> Hi,
> Im running mailscanner 4.29.7-1. When I restart mailscanner, I notice the
> following line in /var/log/maillog:
> Apr 29 11:47:25 filter MailScanner[10012]: Using Custom Function file
> /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/CustomFunctions/MyExample.pm
>
> I have read through the file, and, would like to get a better understanding
> as to what its purpose is, is it necessary, how I can modify it, what are
> the benefits to it, and just anything other piece of info anyone might have.

Its purpose is to serve as an example to anyone thinking of implementing
their own custom functions.  MailScanner scans this directory and loads
all the .pm files it finds.  Custom functions can be used in the
configuration file anywhere a ruleset is acceptable (see the comments at
the top of the conf file), this makes it possible to vastly expand the
configurability without having to add all sorts of strange extra
options.  You can create your own custom functions based on the
MyExample.pm template (given the necessary perl skills) or by using any
of the several available that other folks have written.





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