From: Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@...>
Date: 2002-02-07T00:28:48+09:00
Subject: ruby-mda

After seeing the huge ugly mess of procmail's code, I'm feeling a
compulsion to change.

The most "standard" alternative seems to be maildrop, which at least
looks fairly clean and has a much more readable filter language.

But it still lacks some features I want, such as the ability to queue
messages and perform higher level comparisons on them to, for instance,
intelligently deal with dupes in group replies (try filtering on
X-Mailing-List: headers and tell me to use formail and a message id
cache..)

Then I started thinking about how to use ruby as a filter language;

require 'filter/mailinglist'
require 'filter/queue'
require 'filter/dupes'

queue = Queue.new(20, '3 min')

queue.prune_dupes

queue.run do |mail|
        mail.cc('Backup')

        if list = MailingList.filter(mail)
                mail.deliver('lists/' + list)
        end

        mail.filter('/usr/local/bin/spamassassin -P')

        if mail.header.match(/^X-Spam-Flag: Yes/)
                mail.deliver('SPAM')
        end

        mail.deliver('Inbox')
end

Comments?

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