* Marc Perkel <marc@???> [20040906 19:23]: wrote:
> Here's a project for some moderately sharp programmer that we can all
> use. I'll spec it out and see where this goes.
>
> The goal - to provide user management for end users for a variety of
> settings that end email users can set themselves. I'm going to assume
> you are using Exim - Spam Assassin and saslauthd or something similar.
> Probably PHP is a good platform for this.
>
> The user sees a login screen asking for their userid and password. This
> is the same user id and password thet they use to get their email. It
> will then run testsasldauth and authenticate against their email
> account. Once they are authenticated - they will be presented with a
> number of files to edit including a vacation message - white lists -
> black lists - forwarding - etc. These will be saves as text files
> somewhere inder /etc/exim or something like that. And example might be:
>
> /etc/exim/prefs/user@???/blacklist
>
> This interface will be all about managing persinal setting based on an
> authenticated login.
>
> On the backened we create Exim routers and filters to process this. As
> to Blacklist/Whitelists - we set a header and pass that onto
> spamassassin for scoring and clear the headers on return.
>
> The main objective of this piece of code will be to authenticate and
> allow editing of text files by the end user.
>
> Who likes this idea and will write it?
Avleen Vig started a project called Vexim. It's now Vexim v2 and it's
available at
http://silverwraith.com/vexim.
It's Open Source and so you can extend it to write to text files. It
already does alot of what you are after. Take a look at it and submit
patches that will create those text files in $mailroot/$domain/$user/.
The reason for that is so that if $user is deleted, those files should
be rm-ed as well.
It may turn out to be easy for you to get the whitelists/blacklists
written into the DB (it is MySQL based) and then you can craft a small
app that would extract those details and write them into cdb format,
as in $mailroot/$domain/$user/{white|black}-lists.cdb.
That will improve the processing efficiency.
It gets complicated when you want to use regexes in those white/black
lists, but nothing is impossible.
I use Vexim2 on 4 sites for clients running their own Exim and it's
very stable. Just keep of the CVS version at the beginning! ;)
The mailing list for Vexim is at vexim-at-silverwraith.com.
HTH
cheers
- wash
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