bounce template question

By Ralf Hildebrandt at 09/24/2008 - 05:20

Which $variables are available in a bounce template?

The second portion of a bounce template consists of message text. As the
above example shows, template message text may contain main.cf
$parameters. Besides the parameters that are defined in main.cf, the
following parameters are treated spe- cially depending on the suffix that
is appended to their name.

I wonder if something like "orig_recipient_domain" is available :)

4 comments

Re: bounce template question

By Wietse Venema at 09/24/2008 - 06:58

Ralf Hildebrandt:

main.cf parameters, including some main.cf parameters with special
suffixes as listed in the bounce(5) manual page.

That is not a main.cf parameter, and it is not a main.cf parameter
with a special suffix as listed in the bounce(5) manual page.

Recipient information would have to be stored into an array (there
can be more than one) of structures that also contain the reason
and other status information. The bounce template would look like
a PHP script. Not sure if it is a good idea to put a PHP processor
into Postfix.

Wietse

Re: bounce template question

By Ralf Hildebrandt at 09/24/2008 - 07:03

* Wietse Venema < ... at porcupine dot org>:

Indeed.

Probably not.

Re: bounce template question

By Wietse Venema at 09/24/2008 - 07:18

Ralf Hildebrandt:

This is not an insane idea. My original plan was to implement
Postfix as a configuration language, with built-in operators
implemented by what is now libutil, libglobal, etc. But I got
stuck with the prototype C version.

Wietse

Re: bounce template question

By Victor Duchovni at 09/24/2008 - 12:49

We could wrap Python around the (higher level APIs in the) C libraries,
and over time implement new daemons that are Python scripts and offer
a richer configuration language. This need not happen all at once. The
first experiment could be a Python smtpd(8) clone...