XMail Filter Revolution, The new filtering scheme of 1.14 ...

[hschneider]

Hi,

according to Davide, the long awaited in- and outbound filtering will be rewritten in 1.14. Here an extract from his original post. Keep in mind, that this is just a raw draft, how things could be implemented.

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Right now filter selection is pretty weak and now that I'm doing the inbound/outbound split is going to be even weaker. I was thinking about nuking the "filters" directory and have two files : filters.in.tab filters.out.tab The syntax of those files is : "sender"  "recipient"  "cip"  "sip" "command" ... Where : sender = Message sender ( MAIL FROM ) recipient = Message recipient ( RCPT TO ) cip = Client IP sip = Server IP Example : "*@mydomain.com"  "*"  "0.0.0.0/0"  "0.0.0.0/0"  "/bin/nukeit.sh"  ... "hacker@*"  "*@safedomain.com"  "  "208.129.208.32/27"  "192.168.1.12/32"  "/bin/nukeit.sh"  ...

This great change will boost XMail's flexibility again!

[hschneider]

Some more infos:

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On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Shawn Anderson wrote: > > The main issues I would have or like to see handled are: > > - Filters are handled in some sort of set (or configurable/weighted) > order On the contrary of what it was before, now all the matching entries of the appropriate file will be executed. > - Filters of higher order see the changes that filters of lower order > have made Just put high priority filter ahead in the file. > - The ability to modify any part of the message or drop the message > completely Yes, if filter A run before filter B and filter A modifies the message, filter B will see the new message.

[hschneider]

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On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Wim Verveen wrote: > > wille filtering on a domain or user basis still be possible? Sure it will ... - Davide