Generic spam plug-in

[Julian Field]

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Adri Koppes wrote:

>>Hi,
>>
>>Adri Koppes schrieb:
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>>>I agree a function call might be more efficient, but since this is
>>>supposed to be a generic plug-in, I think we should always have to
>>>option to use a command line version and process the output via a
>>>pipe, exit code or temporary file.
>>>      
>>>
>>>Using a function call would make the generic plug-in less generic,
>>>since you can then only use it for external programs which have a
>>>perl interface!
>>>      
>>>
>>It is extreamly easy writing a very small perl function that does a
>>'system' call to execute a command line script.
>>
>>-- 
>>Felix
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>>
>
>Sure it's not to difficult to do a 'system' call.
>It gets a little more complicated when you have to add timeouts, setting up the pipe, processing the output etc.
>I wouldn't have too many problems, but I think there are many people who are using MailScanner without having knowing how to write a perl script.
>  
>
I was going to do all the timeout stuff for you anyway. Even if it's a 
function call, it will still need a timeout wrapper. And I can probably 
come up with some example code that uses an external program for you.

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