[Tutor] need help to understand terms for desinging a program

[paul brian]

I would suggest that you look firstly at qmails own built in ruleset.
something like that must be achieveable without writing a special plugin.

qmail control files are usually in /var/qmail/control. Nothing obvious
in the man pages i am afraid.

Good luck


On 10/5/05, Hameed U. Khan <hameed.u.khan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/5/05, paul brian <paul1brian at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This is a pretty big question, and it would be easier to answer if you
> > can give us more details about what you want to do.
> >
> > It seems you want to inspect outgoing mails (possibly rewrite their
> > addresses?) before the mails are sent out.
> >
> > If you are looking to send out emails to a list then I suggest looking
> > at mailman - a python mailing list manager.
> >
> > If you want to use python to examine mail messages and do not care
> > what mailserver (MTA) you use you could try exim instead of qmail and
> > then try exim-python.
> > http://botanicus.net/dw/exim-python/exim-4.32py1.html
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 10/5/05, Hameed U. Khan <hameed.u.khan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >  I need to make a program which will accomplish following. I dont
> > > need the code. I want to make it myself. But I need guidance from you
> > > people because I am not a good programmer. I need help in
> > > understanding following terms.
> > >
> > >   " qmail-queue  reads  a  mail message from descriptor 0.  It
> > >       then reads envelope information  from  descriptor  1.   It
> > >       places  the  message  into  the  outgoing queue for future
> > >       delivery by qmail-send.
> > >
> > >       The envelope information is  an  envelope  sender  address
> > >       followed  by  a list of envelope recipient addresses.  The
> > >       sender address is preceded by the letter F and  terminated
> > >       by  a  0  byte.  Each recipient address is preceded by the
> > >       letter T and terminated by a 0 byte.  The list of  recipi-
> > >       ent addresses is terminated by an extra 0 byte.  If qmail-
> > >       queue sees end-of-file before the extra 0 byte, it  aborts
> > >       without placing the message into the queue."
> > >
> > >  I want to inspect messages before passing them to actuall qmail-queue
> > > program.
> > > Thanks in advance for your help.
> > > --
> > > Regards,
> > > Hameed U. Khan
> > > Registered Linux User #: 354374
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>
> Thanks paul for you quick reply but I have to stick with qmail. I want
> to check envelopes when user attempts to send message. Because our
> company want to restrict some users to send message to selected
> domains only. I've been given this task. Anyway thanks again for your
> time.
> --
> Regards,
> Hameed U. Khan
> Registered Linux User #: 354374
> -
> *Computer without Linux is just like the world without computer.*
>


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