Jeremy, > > Additional notifications can be sent from a custom hook, > > as indicated in the amavisd-custom.conf example. > > I'm having a bit of trouble with this. I'm not sure if I'm fighting > amavis or just my inexperience with it. Any pointers would be very > useful.
The hooks are somewhat limiting for the purposes you have in mind. I see that some improvements would be in order. > I want to notify the local user (sender for outbound, recipient(s) for > inbound) when a message is banned by my custom hook, using a template. > I can't leave things to the normal final destiny settings, because > banned files need to be handled differently to these policy > violations, and I can't see any way of making the notification > dependent on the reason for a banned message. So I'm trying to notify > within my custom hook. A possible solution would be to allow custom hooks to prepare a value for some new dedicated macro, and let templates base their expansion on that value. That would probably offer the cleanest solution for least work. I also see a need for a mechanism by which custom hooks could suppress normal notifications and quarantining - currently this is only possible indirectly by modifying attributes of a mail (e.g. its contents category). Then you could send your own notifications without worrying about multiple notifications. > When I follow the example, it doesn't seem to be able to expand a > template's macros successfully. I'm copying the global > Amavis::builtins and trying to use that, calling the expand sub from > its package in the main code. That should work. I'll test it tomorrow. > Even if I get this working, I think the normal banned template gets > sent to the user, as well as my notification, which is not acceptable. > > So my questions: > 1) Can I expand a template within a custom hook? I believe this should be possible. Will try. > 2) Can I prevent the original notification from being sent? Not without a hack, or without modifying a reason for a notification. > 3) Do I want to do this? Is there a better way? I think your needs are sensible. I'll see what can be done. Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list AMaViS-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
