Re: [exim] running an external program on messages data

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Author: Ian Zimmerman
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] running an external program on messages data
On 2018-11-11 19:22, Jeremy Harris wrote:

> >> The malware ACL condition, with your choice of scanner type "sock"
> >> or "cmdline".
> >
> > Yea, I thought about that too. Feels like the cleanest solution,
> > but ... it is too early. I need to delay the program until delivery
> > time.
>
> That's getting a bit specialised... will the message content remain
> unaltered, and you just need to extract and develop something for
> use at transport time? Do repeat calls (e.g. thanks to failed
> deliveries not matter?
>
> If so, find a transport option that is expanded and that you can
> insert a dummy expansion in, that always results in a correct value.
> Use a ${acl } expansion, to a custom ACL which makes a malware call.


Excellent idea! I think both of your conditions hold, so this should
work out.

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