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On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 12:06:53PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:

| has anybody yet written a local_scan function that can call a perl
| function, or that can even all an arbitrary shell command as a filter?

Yes. See sa-exim by Marc Merlin. It uses the common unix mechanism
of using a pipe to pass data around.

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On Jun 30 Marc Haber wrote:

>has anybody yet written a local_scan function that can call a perl
>function, or that can even all an arbitrary shell command as a filter?

The former is just a case of expand_string() with "${perl ...}" :-)

The latter is easy enough too; see my uvscan local_scan() posted here
about a month ago. (NB mine isn't strictly a shell command--I wanted to be
even lighter than that--but the principle is nice and easy, I hope.)

Matt

On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 01:09:39 +0100 (BST), mb@dcs.qmul.ac.uk wrote:
>On Jun 30 Marc Haber wrote:
>>has anybody yet written a local_scan function that can call a perl
>>function, or that can even all an arbitrary shell command as a filter?
>
>The former is just a case of expand_string() with "${perl ...}" :-)

A nice idea ;) Is this actually verified to work?

Greetings
Marc

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Ok

finally persuaded my company to open source the one I wrote. See
http://oss.bibliotech.net/ . This is a local_scan.c that starts a Perl
interpreter and runs a perl subroutine on each email in much the
same way as the C API works. Its GPL licenced with all the usual
that implies :-)

Instructions for install and how to write the perl local_scan
bit are there as well. I'd appreciate any feedback.

cheers

Richard

On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 12:06:53PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> Hi,
>
> has anybody yet written a local_scan function that can call a perl
> function, or that can even all an arbitrary shell command as a filter?
>
> Greetings
> Marc
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