src/src/transport-filter.src

   1 #! PERL_COMMAND -w
   2 # $Cambridge: exim/src/src/transport-filter.src,v 1.1 2004/10/07 10:39:01 ph10 Exp $
   3
   4 # This is a Perl script to demonstrate the possibilities of on-the-fly
   5 # delivery filtering in Exim. It is presented with a message on its standard
   6 # input, and must copy it to the standard output, transforming it as it
   7 # pleases, but of course it must keep to the syntax of RFC 822 for the headers.
   8
   9 # The filter is run before any SMTP-specific processing, such as turning
  10 # \n into \r\n and escaping lines beginning with a dot.
  11 #
  12 # Philip Hazel, May 1997
  13 #############################################################################
  14
  15
  16 # If the filter is called with any arguments, insert them into the message
  17 # as X-Arg headers, just to verify what they are.
  18
  19 for ($ac = 0; $ac < @ARGV; $ac++)
  20   {
  21   printf("X-Arg%d: %s\n", $ac, $ARGV[$ac]);
  22   }
  23
  24 # Now read the header portion of the message; this is easy to do in Perl
  25
  26 $/ = "";                    # set paragraph mode
  27 chomp($headers = <STDIN>);  # read a paragraph, remove trailing newlines
  28 $/ = "\n";                  # unset paragraph mode
  29
  30 # Splitting up a sequence of unique headers is easy to do in Perl, but a
  31 # message may contain duplicate headers of various kinds. It is better
  32 # to extract the headers one wants from the whole paragraph, do any appropriate
  33 # munging, and then put them back (unless removing them altogether). Messing
  34 # with "Received:" headers is not in any case to be encouraged.
  35
  36 # As a demonstration, we extract the "From:" header, add a textual comment
  37 # to it, and put it back.
  38
  39 ($pre, $from, $post) =
  40   $headers =~ /^(|(?:.|\n)+\n)   (?# Stuff preceding the From header,
  41                                      which is either null, or any number
  42                                      of characters, including \n, ending
  43                                      with \n.)
  44                From:[\s\t]*      (?# Header name, with optional space or tab.)
  45                ((?:.|\n)*?)      (?# Header body, which contains any chars,
  46                                      including \n, but we want to make it as
  47                                      short as possible so as not to include
  48                                      following headers by mistake.)
  49                (|\n\S(?:.|\n)*)$ (?# Header terminates at end or at \n followed
  50                                      by a non-whitespace character and
  51                                      remaining headers.)
  52               /ix;                #  case independent, regular expression,
  53                                   #  use extended features (ignore whitespace)
  54
  55 # Only do something if there was a From: header, of course. It has been
  56 # extracted without the final \n, which is on the front of the $post
  57 # variable.
  58
  59 if ($pre)
  60   {
  61   $headers = $pre . "From: $from (this is an added comment)" . $post;
  62   }
  63
  64 # Add a new header to the end of the headers; remember that the final
  65 # \n isn't there.
  66
  67 $headers .= "\nX-Comment: Message munged";
  68
  69 # Write out the processed headers, plus a blank line to separate them from
  70 # the body.
  71
  72 printf(STDOUT "%s\n\n", $headers);
  73
  74 # As a demonstration of munging the body of a message, reverse all the
  75 # characters in each line.
  76
  77 while (<STDIN>)
  78   {
  79   chomp;
  80   $_ = reverse($_);
  81   printf(STDOUT "%s\n", $_);
  82   }
  83
  84 # End