Author: dman Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] header munging -- can I do it in a filter file?
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 10:19:38AM -0500, Patrice Fournier wrote: | Quoting dman <dsh8290@???>: | | > Some mailing lists like to fill up the Subject: header with extra
| > noise (usually an identification of the list in square brackets).
| >
| > What I would like to do is strip this noise from the Subject: header
| > before it is delivered to the folder.
| [...]
| > I would rather do this in my userland
| > filter file, but I don't recall seeing any mechanism to add/remove or
| > otherwise munge headers in a filter file. Is there a way for me to do
| > this? | | No header add/remove in user filters (only in system filters)
Mmm. Must be a reason, I guess ...
| > While I'm at it, can I check the "protocol" in a filter file? If I
| > can't do the above, I could pipe the message to a script that fixes
| > it, and then sends it back to exim with a different protocol to
| > prevent looping (similar to what spamassassin says it does). | | I think $received_protocol is available to user filters... but remember
| that you need to be a trusted user to call Exim with a specified
| protocol... If you're not, you can always have your script add another
| header of your choice which would never occur in a message and filter
| according to that header...
