Re: Squid 2.5 new mail_program feature proposal

Hi Henrik,

At 13.31 09/08/2005, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

>On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Serassio Guido wrote:
>
>>A "mail_program" configuration option in squid.conf that allows to
>>specify the program that squid will be use to send fatal reports by mail.
>
>Ok. No problem with that.
>
>>I have attached the proposed patch.
>>
>>I have used an eol type instead of a string type, this allow to
>>specify not only the program name, but command line options too.
>
>Ok.
>
>Isn't "wordlist" a more appropriate type, giving you the line
>already split into words? This is what is used for other program
>specifications accepting arguments.

Sure. I have used 'eol' only to have a very small change in tools.c:

- snprintf(command, 256, "mail %s < %s", Config.adminEmail, filename);
+ snprintf(command, 256, "%s %s < %s", Config.EmailProgram,
Config.adminEmail, filename);

>>For example, on Windows I have used something like:
>>mail_program c:/squid/libexec/mailsend.exe -smtp smtp.tld.com -d
>>tld.com -f squid@tld.com -sub "Squid failure" -t
>
>Hmm.. we do have a config entry for the email address today. Perhaps
>we should expand the string with errorBuildContent or similar to
>allow this and other interesting % codes to be used in the string.

I think that something like the following configuration tags could be
very useful:

- The destination e-mail address (today we have only this)
- The from e-mail address, currently we use appname string
- The subject of the message
- The email program to use
- The email program command line with % codes that can be expanded
with to, from and subject values
- The message body itself, with again % codes that can be expanded
with a error code/message and the to, from and subject values

But probably a similar change is too big for 2.5.

If you like, I could write a simplified version for 2.5, with only
the following tags:
mail_program a string with the mail program name
mail_program_options a wordlist with mail program command line options

Regards

Guido

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