Re: [SM-PLUGINS] serversidefilters/vpopmail

[Rainer D. <ra...@ul...>]

Miolinux wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 15:16 -0300, Soutien technique / Technical Support
>wrote:
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>>I was wondering if any work had been done towards putting out a
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>solution 
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>>that would work well for those of us using a qmail/vpopmail system as 
>>outlined in Bill Shupp's toaster, or qmailrocks.org.
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>>All my other users' requirements are filled by plugins such as sasql, 
>>filtering is the only thing left to do.  Any help or pointers would
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>be 
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>>appreciated.
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>I'm also very interested in this matter, but i didn't find many useful
>tips&tricks...
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>Some time ago, googling i found this message,
>(http://www.freelists.org/archives/juneau-lug/01-2004/msg00001.html) by
>Myron Davis, and looking at the code found in his site
>(http://vchkpw.xyxx.com/) with some minor modification i managed to make
>it works, but i removed it since i didn't want to use setuid script
>(needed by the web-server to write in vpopmail's dir since users are
>different).
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>So i mailed maildrop mailing-list asking a way to store filter file in a
>mysql table instead of .mailfiter.
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>But nobody answered me :(
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>I hope someone else can help us :)
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To overcome the SUID-ness of the filtercmd-program, you'd have to go the 
way sqwebmail went: write a daemon that accompanies the CGI and does all 
the heavy lifting.


Saving filters in a database is not going to scale very good, IMO.



cheers,
Rainer

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