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Changes for version 2.1 - 2002-01-15

  • Meng Weng Wong <mengwong@pobox.com> made some edits.
  • (1) ~username and strftime interpolation into accept() arguments.
    • $mail->accept("~/Mail/In/%Y%m%d");
    • 260(accept): accepting to /home/matest/Mail/In/20020115
  • (2) multiple-argument accept() will deliver to multiple maildirs using single-inode multiple-hardlink style.
    • $mail->accept("~/maildir1/", "~/maildir2/");
    • 20020115-01:55:31 matest@dumbo:~% ll maildir?/*/* -rw------- 2 matest matest 416 Jan 15 01:55 maildir1/new/1011077720.13062_0.dumbo -rw------- 2 matest matest 416 Jan 15 01:55 maildir2/new/1011077720.13062_1.dumbo
  • (3) emergency mailbox support if none of the accept()s work.
    • $mail->accept("/etc/bogus");
    • 296(accept): calling accept handler accept_to_mbox(/etc/bogus) 359(accept_to_mbox): Couldn't open /etc/bogus: Permission denied 319(accept): unable to write to /etc/bogus; wrote to emergency mailbox /var/spool/mail/matest.
  • (4) deferral back to mailqueue if emergency couldn't get delivered.
    • 296(accept): calling accept handler accept_to_mbox(/etc/bogus) 359(accept_to_mbox): Couldn't open /etc/bogus: Permission denied 359(accept_to_mbox): Couldn't open /etc/emergency: Permission denied 320(accept): unable to write to /etc/bogus or to emergency mailbox /etc/emergency either; exiting EX_TEMPFAIL
  • (5) fixed the From header bug http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=118 (6) fixed the user method override bug with (@_) argument passing (7) autocreation of parent and maildir cur/new/tmp dirs as necessary.
    • 260(accept): accepting to /home/mengwong/tmp/blah/some/really/deep/directory/ 761(mkdir_p): /home/mengwong/tmp/blah/some/really/deep/directory/tmp doesn't exist, creating. 761(mkdir_p): /home/mengwong/tmp/blah/some/really/deep/directory doesn't exist, creating. 761(mkdir_p): /home/mengwong/tmp/blah/some/really/deep doesn't exist, creating. 761(mkdir_p): /home/mengwong/tmp/blah/some/really doesn't exist, creating. 761(mkdir_p): /home/mengwong/tmp/blah/some doesn't exist, creating. 761(mkdir_p): /home/mengwong/tmp/blah/some/really/deep/directory/new doesn't exist, creating. 761(mkdir_p): /home/mengwong/tmp/blah/some/really/deep/directory/cur doesn't exist, creating. 492(accept_to_maildir): maildir: hardlinking to /home/mengwong/tmp/blah/some/really/deep/directory/new/1011077537.12691_3.dumbo 304(accept): delivered successfully to 1 destinations.
  • (8) support for MIME, with direct inheritance from Mail::Internet and MIME::Entity (as appropriate) instead of containment in ->{obj}. added ->is_mime method.
  • (9) added "reply" method. uses Mail::Mailer::sendmail.
  • (10) STDERR is directed to the logfile.
  • (11) added test infrastructure.

Documentation

Procmail to Mail::Audit migrator.

Modules

Library for creating easy mail filters
Mail::Audit plugin for duplicate suppression
Mail::Audit plugin for automatic list delivery
Mail::Audit plugin for RBL checking
Mail::Audit plugin for PGP header fixing
Mail::Audit plugin for the Vipul's Razor spam detection system

Provides

in Audit/KillDups.pm
in Audit/List.pm
in Audit/MAPS.pm
in Audit/PGP.pm
in Audit/Razor.pm
in Audit/MailInternet.pm
in Audit/MimeEntity.pm