[imp] How to add enviromental variable when sending from IMP

[John McCoy, Jr.]

Confusion is always possible on my end!
Qmail-smtpd sets QMAILQUEUE when it processes incoming email, then sends
that email to qmail-queue (is my understanding)
IMP calls qmail-inject (often a link from /usr/sbin/sendmail) which then
passes the email to qmail-queue, where the virus scan should take place.

I'm not so much trying to scan outgoing mail as I am trying to scan local
mail from students and their unprotected computers, so they don't infect
other students and faculty. Students are the primary users of IMP here.

I'll ask over on the qmail list see if they can come up with an answer, I'll
post it back here as I've seen this request but no solution on this list a
few times.

Thanks all.

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John McCoy, Jr
Central Systems Administrator
Mills College, Oakland, CA
510-430-3321
jmccoy@mills.edu
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-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Lafferty [mailto:rich@bofh.concordia.ca]On Behalf Of Rich
Lafferty
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 7:09 PM
To: imp@lists.horde.org
Subject: Re: [imp] How to add enviromental variable when sending from IMP

[Back to the mailing list!]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 06:47:17PM -0700, John McCoy, Jr (jmccoy@mills.edu)
wrote:
> Qmail scans all regular smtp connections fine, adds a line to the header
> too. Nothing is added on emails sent through IMP. Qmail normally adds it
> right before calling qmail-smtpd, possibly qmail-inject removes the
setting?

Er, I'm confused. (Or maybe you are. :-)

IMP isn't sending mail via SMTP; it's calling a program on the host it
runs on which sends the mail. In your case, I guess that would be
qmail's sendmail-compatible wrapper (but remember that I don't use
qmail.)

It sounds to me that you're expecting the virus-checking that your
system does on incoming mail to work on mail sent out from IMP; but
incoming mail isn't outgoing mail, and there's no reason for IMP to
use the SMTP server on the machine it's running on.

(I've never seen virus-checking on *outgoing* mail.)

  -Rich

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------------------------------ Rich Lafferty ---------------------------
 Sysadmin/Programmer, Instructional and Information Technology Services
   Concordia University, Montreal, QC                 (514) 848-7625
------------------------- rich@alcor.concordia.ca ----------------------

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