Pre-Filter Your Email List [message #33234] |
Sun, 20 August 2006 20:58 |
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jeffrey
Messages: 36 Registered: June 2006 Location: Atlanta, GA
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I have written a few pre-filters for the mailing list that can be chained together, to filter the emails before they are posted to the mailing list. I found the regular expressions a little too complex for the builtin regular expressions in the mailing list. So instead of calling the maillist.php directly from sendmail, I call my filter.php program(s) first that then feed the resulting filtered email to maillist.php.
Here's how it works.
1. Check how to call a different program as a particular user (NOBODY) at http://fudforum.org/forum/index.php?t=msg&goto=33233&#msg_33233
you may not need this at all it just makes it easier for me.
Instead of the example I gave there, I actually modify that a little to call my filter program:
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#define NOBODY 99
main() {
setuid(NOBODY);
setgid(NOBODY);
if(fork() == 0) {
execl("/home/FUDforum/filter.php","/home/FUDforum/filter.php",(char *)NULL);
exit(0);
} else {
exit(0);
}
}
2. The filter.php program is the first in a possible chain of filters that are called. This filter replaces a series of email list footers with a single instance of the footer. Here is filter.php:
#!/usr/local/bin/php
<?php
// Filter this pattern out of the email and then hand it off to maillist.php
// _______________________________________________
// discuss mailing list
// discuss(at)itdiscuss(dot)org
// Mailing List: http://itdiscuss.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
// Web Discussion Board: http://itdiscuss.org
$fp = @fopen("php://stdin","r");
$fpOut = @popen("/home/FUDforum/scripts/maillist.php 1","w");
$count = 0;
while(!feof($fp)) {
$line = fgets($fp, 4096);
$match = true;
if(strncmp($line, "_______________________________________________", 46) == 0) {
// Store in buffer in case we don't match and we need to print
$buf = $line;
// Get next four lines and see if they don't match
for($i = 0; $i < 4; $i++) {
if(!feof($fp)) {
$line = fgets($fp, 4096);
$buf = $buf . $line;
switch($i) {
case 0:
if(strncmp("discuss mailing list", $line, 20) != 0) {
$match = false;
break;
}
break;
case 1:
if(strncmp("discuss(at)itdiscuss(dot)org", $line, 21) != 0) {
$match = false;
break;
}
break;
case 2:
if(strncmp("Mailing List: http://itdiscuss.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss", $line, 58) != 0) {
$match = false;
break;
}
break;
case 3:
if(strncmp("Web Discussion Board: http://itdiscuss.org", $line, 42) != 0) {
$match = false;
break;
}
break;
}
} else {
break;
}
}
if($match) {
$count++;
// print the pattern the first time and then skip the rest of them
if($count == 1) {
fputs($fpOut,$buf,4096);
} else {
// skip the pattern
}
} else {
// didn't match, print buffer
fputs($fpOut,$buf, 4096);
}
} else {
fputs($fpOut,$line, 4096);
}
}
fclose($fp);
fclose($fpOut);
?>
It's possible to call multiple filters and the last filter going to maillist.php. This example goes directly to maillist.php.
I actually use MailMan and use the same filter approach for the MailMan program as well, except for emails going to MailMan I remove every instance of the pattern since MailMan will add another one to the end of the new message being posted to the list.
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