Re: Action hook upon releasing/confirmation/deletion/whitelisting/blacklisting

Lloyd Zusman <[email protected]> writes:

> Ages ago (well, back in March and April), I discussed and wrote a patch
> for TMDA that would allow us to install hooks that can be invoked upon
> releasing, confirming, deleting, whitelisting, or blacklisting messages.
>
> I posted an early release of this here for comments and discussion, and
> since then, I've been regularly using a somewhat debugged version of the
> same thing.  I use it to feed rejected and accepted messages to a
> bayesian spam/non-spam learning procedure.
>
> It's been working fine, and I recently realized that I never followed
> through on posting a final version.  So, here I am with it, requesting
> that it be evaluated and (hopefully) applied to the TMDA code base.

Any thoughts on this patch?  Is there any way it might get incorporated
into the TMDA code base?


> With this patch we can install any of the following hooks:
>
>   PENDING_RELEASE_ACTION_HOOK
>   PENDING_CONFIRM_ACTION_HOOK
>   PENDING_DELETE_ACTION_HOOK
>   PENDING_WHITELIST_ACTION_HOOK
>   PENDING_BLACKLIST_ACTION_HOOK
>
> In each case, these contain the full path name of an executable that
> will be invoked for each message that is released, confirmed, deleted,
> whitelisted, and blacklisted, respectively.  For all of these which are
> not set to None, the specified hook executable will be invoked as
> follows:
>
>   /path/to/hook message-file
>
> ... where "message-file" is the pathname of the message file in the TMDA
> pending directory.  Also, before this hook is invoked, all the variables
> defined in Defaults.py, /etc/tmdarc, and your local .tmda file are put
> into the environment, so they can be accessed easily within the hook
> program.
>
> Anyway, here's the patch.  It works against tmda-1.1.11 (am I out of
> date?).
>
> (by the way, this patch also contains try/except blocks around the
> invocations of "Util.headers_as_raw_string" and
> "Util.body_as_raw_string" in tmda-rfilter, but I don't recall why I did
> that ... maybe because some messages had content which blew up
> tmda-rfilter ... ???)
>
>
> [ ... patch deleted to save bandwidth ... ]

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 Lloyd Zusman
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 God bless you.