New beta 4.69.3 released

[Julian Field]

Alex Broens wrote:
> On 4/14/2008 7:05 PM, Julian Field wrote:
>>
>>
>> Alex Broens wrote:
>>> On 4/14/2008 5:50 PM, Julian Field wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Alex Broens wrote:
>>>>> On 4/14/2008 4:06 PM, Julian Field wrote:
>>>>>> I have released a new beta version of MailScanner, 4.69.3.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The main new features in this beta are:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - New keywords available in "Spam Actions" (and its relations) 
>>>>>> and "Archive Mail" in MailScanner.conf. These let you put 
>>>>>> _FROMUSER_, _FROMDOMAIN_, _TOUSER_, _TODOMAIN_ and _DATE_ in the 
>>>>>> "forward" email address in "Spam Actions" and in the archive 
>>>>>> location and forwarding addresses in "Archive Mail". This lets 
>>>>>> you build all sorts of fancy systems that use procmail to deliver 
>>>>>> messages directly into spam databases and mail archives that are 
>>>>>> sorted by recipient address, and clever things like that.
>>>>>> - New MailScanner.conf setting "Missing Mail Archive Is =" which 
>>>>>> lets you specify whether a destination in "Archive Mail =" is an 
>>>>>> mbox-format file or a directory. This used not to be necessary as 
>>>>>> you could predict the name of the next mbox file as it could only 
>>>>>> contain fixed strings or the date, so you could create the mbox 
>>>>>> file in advance if you wanted to deliver to that format. However, 
>>>>>> now it can be based on the sender and/or recipients of the 
>>>>>> message, it cannot be predicted so has to be told which type to 
>>>>>> use if the archive location is not present. It will automatically 
>>>>>> create all necessary complete directories trees to be able to 
>>>>>> archive the mail in your requested location.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please let me know if this works for you okay, and also if there 
>>>>>> are any necessary facilities I have not provided for this to be 
>>>>>> most useful to you. The only one that immediately comes to mind 
>>>>>> is to be able to specify an arbitrary directory location in the 
>>>>>> "store" spam action. Do you need that ability to do that too?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Cool
>>>>>
>>>>> Question: Will your IMAPspam custom function work with this?
>>>> Any idea who I wrote it for or what it does? 
>>> adding:
>>>
>>> It was designed to store spam (or ham) in a  remote IMAP 
>>> account/folder to avoid having mabox/files on MailScanner boxes.
>>>
>>> Back in 2006, when your wrote it, it required a massive MS hack to 
>>> make it work. I gave up hacking through MS releases to keep it running.
>>>
>>> MS' new action features seem to fit the concept way better so it may 
>>> be of use again.
>> I'm not quite sure how these 2 things are related. The IMAPspam code 
>> I wrote for you uses an IMAP client to store the message in the 
>> user's mailboxes. The new code I have written doesn't have anything 
>> to do with IMAP clients.
>>
>> I'm slightly puzzled.
>
> Yes - indeed, it has nothign to do with the new feature except:
>
> Back when you wrote it actions weren't preprared to handle custom 
> functions.
> According to you, now they do, right?
Yes, they do.
>
> If yes, and you can get it to work, I'd like to to give it away to the 
> wiki, or anyone who may want to use it.
Great, thanks.
>
> If you can't get it to work, it was useless.
I'm sure I can :-)

Jules

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