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