Re: PHP milter SAPI: problem with smfi_getsymval

Atpic wrote: > Hi Jochem, > > Well, the best known spam filtering solution is PERL based > (mimedefang/spamassassin). spamassassin at least I (a little) familiar with (I usually leave the intricacies to someone with much more knowledge about this kind of stuff - what are sys admins for? :-) > In theory, you could do this using the PHP milter SAPI: the SAPI provides the 'PHP milter SAPI' bit confuses me - like where to start with regard to installing it properly - I'm not in need of answer regarding this ... first off I'm going to do a whole bunch of reading (including the link you pointed me at - thanks for that!) a couple of question that I do have are (hope you don't mind the intrusion): 1. based on your description I come to the conclusion that the milter SAPI could be used to intercept incoming (reply) emails that related to automated information request email from a website (the idea being to track the complete thread of conversation related to a sales lead that was initiated by a person visiting a website - I would like to do this because, for one of my clients, there are a lot of users that make a pigs ear of managing their leads/clients/etc - and initial contact always via a website and related to data stored in the websites DB), I could do something like this with the milter SAPI? 2. would I have to use sendmail as my MTA? or is it possible to use the milter SAPI in the 'toolchain' of any sendmail compatible MTA? (my hoster/sysadmin/magic-geek runs Gentoo installation with courier as the MTA, I believe courier is sendmail compatible, then again my believe may be completely unfounded/misguided) > you with a way to catch the STMP commands sent by mail server to you mail > server and tell your mail server want to tell to the sending server. > For instance if you see the connection coming from a spammer IP, then you > could temp fail the mail. > In other words, there are huge spam related libraries in PERL with no > equivalent in PHP but the PHP SAPI allows you to develop such libraries. > The sendmail milter API is document here: > http://www.sendmail.org/doc/sendmail-current/libmilter/docs/ > thanks again for your feedback. kind regards, Jochem