[Sendmail-milter-users] setpriv questions

[Andrew A. <an...@hi...>]

I am writing a filter using Sendmail::Milter. I want to maintain state 
using a hash reference. If I store this in a hash can I use the setpriv and 
getpriv methods of the Sendmail::Milter class to maintain state.

Sample code.

sub my_connect {
  my $ctx = shift;
  my $host = shift;
  my $real_ip = shift;

  my $state = {};
  $state->{host} = $host;
  $state->{real_ip} = $real_ip;
  my $ctx->setpriv($state);

  return SMFIS_CONTINUE;
}

sub my_helo {
  my $ctx = shift;
  my $helo = shift;

  # get state hash
  my $state = $ctx->getpriv();
  my $host = $state->{host};
  
  $state->{helo} = $helo;
  
  # save state again
  $ctx->setpriv($state);

  return SMFIS_CONTINUE;
}

....

Will this work? It seems to but I was wondering if there were any problems 
with continually adding data to the $state hash and storing it using 
setpriv. Thanks in advance.

-- 
Andrew Armstrong                      Director of Application Development
an...@hi...                 Higher Technology Services