custom inline signatures and RBL feedback

[Julian Field]

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Fair enough. You can already put in
    $from
and
    $subject
as it stands.

If you apply this patch to Message.pm you will be able to use $id as well.

-----SNIP-----
--- Message.pm.old 2004-12-22 17:22:02.000000000 +0000
+++ Message.pm  2005-01-10 18:41:49.000000000 +0000
@@ -2474,7 +2474,7 @@

   # Work out the list of all the infected attachments, including
   # reports applying to the whole message
-  my($attach, $text, %infected, $filename, $from, $subject);
+  my($attach, $text, %infected, $filename, $from, $subject, $id);
   while (($attach, $text) = each %{$this->{allreports}}) {
     # It affects the entire message if the entity of this file matches
     # the entity of the entire message.
@@ -2492,6 +2492,7 @@
     $infected{MailScanner::Config::LanguageValue($this, 'notnamed')} = 1;
   }
   $filename = join(', ', keys %infected);
+  $id = $this->{id};
   $from = $this->{from};
   $subject = $this->{subject};

-----SNIP-----

Vlad Mazek wrote:

>>
>> Can I ask why you want this, and what you are trying to achieve?
>
>
> Its more of a political issue than technical accomplishment but becuase
> of the size and the number of different clients we have it comes up more
> often than I'd like to admit it. I don't stand behind these requests or
> acknowledge that they make sense -- I just need to execute them.
>
> 1) Certain users require different signatures and mail actions depending
> on their department membership or job function. For example, certain
> marketing departments are required to include disclaimers about the
> message/product. Law firms and stock brokerages need to include
> additional timestamps when the message is processed at the mail server
> for an employee that deals with customers but not for marketing/etc that
> deal with other businesses (ie, when is the transaction confirmation
> sent out of the network).
>
> 2) Certain users and companies require different signatures depending on
> the time of the day the message is relayed. They use third party chat/im
> software that indicates their chat availability so if the message is
> sent during the business hours the chat/online link is included in the
> signature.
>
> 3) Most users want to inline the senders IP address, email address, etc
> so that the recipients can easilly see where the message came from
> without looking at the message headers. Although I've explained that
> this can be easilly spoofed I think we can use a link in combination
> with sql logging to provide an additional level of
> authenticity/verification.
>
> ... and other general requests like signatures, fortunes, etc. We're
> seeing a bigger and bigger trend in enterprises where they are looking
> to move more of the functions to the mail server and turn their mail
> client into a dumb mail reading/writing terminal. This despite their $$$
> investments in tools like Outlook/Exchange which most people are finding
> hard to use.
>
> -Vlad
>
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