On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Shawn Anderson wrote: > > Ok, I'll admit that there are a few grammatical issues in this one -- = > let me > try again :) > > Suggestion: =20 > Add a command plug-in concept to the ctrl protocol > > Explanation: > Currently the control protocol supports a list of commands that you > have created. My suggestion would allow us to create custom commands, = > or > use a single command to execute custom scripts. For example, say I = > wanted > to be able to disable pop3 access to all accounts on a specific domain. > Currently, I would need to get each user.tab file for each user in the > domain, edit the tab file and the place it back up on the server. Or I > could create a script that would respond to a custom command (ex: > alterpop3accesss), that you take a series of parameters. Then I could > execute a ctrclnt request from anywhere (web front-end, command line, = > etc) > and execute the "alterpop3accesss [EMAIL PROTECTED] disable". The CTRL = > server > would then look for the script that goes with the "alterpop3accesss" = > command > and execute it. =20 > > Benefits: > The key benefit would be that it would allow us, the community, to > enhance the remote management features of XMail without having to bug = > you > for lots of little changes that only a few want :) An additional = > benefit is > that anyone can publish this scripts so that others can use them if they > have need.
I see one MAJOR problem here. Ppl will write crappy plugins and will crash the server. Then they will come to me by saying that the server crashed and they also will lie about the fact that they are running custom plugins and I will have to spend hours to find the lame in them. Believe me it is already happening with ppl doing custom changes on XMail code, and it will happen with way higher frequency doing something like this. There are huge resource locking problems beside this also. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
