Re: [AMaViS-user] Help with custom config / lookups

Patrick,

> I am trying to implement a vacation module for amavis,
> using the amavisd-custom config.

For new development work using amavisd-custom config,
please use amavisd-new-2.6.0-rc1 and its amavisd-custom.conf
as a template. There were some incompatible changes in
custom hooks since 2.5.4.

The 2.6.0-rc1 already provides a simple template (by the
very end of the file 'amavisd') for auto-responses.
It is stored in a variable $notify_autoresp_templ.
(access it through: cr('notify_release_templ_by_ccat').

It is currently unused (juas read and stored), intended
to be used from custom hooks.

> I have trouble doing
> LDAP lookups. Does someone have a code snippet
> or other example of how to setup LDAP lookups from
> the custom config?

I'm not using LDAP myself, so I'm haven't tried it.
Perhaps the low-level use through Amavis::Lookup::LDAPattr->new
and $obj->lookup_ldap_attr would be easiest.

To implement 'vacation', you will most likely also need
SQL r/w access to implement rate limiting of replies.
Storing and dynamically updating such information in LDAP
may be awkward.

See RFC 3834, implementing it in full is a MUST
(and plenty of work, e.g. to get aliases recognition right,
as this information is normally not available to amavisd
and needs to be fetched from MTA databases).

> I have been trying for a week but it does not work out.
> I also have trouble debugging it, as the log level I set
> does not seem to work for the amavisd-custom config.

Calls to do_log from custom hooks should work normally.
See the amavisd-custom.conf example.

Mark

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