Mimedefang Adding Footer

Ugh.

Well, first, in your basic checking code, I wouldn't use $Sender, I'd use $RelayAddr. This is really more of a Perl programming issue. sendmail is only involved because MIMEDefang is a sendmail MILTER.

To check the TO:, CC: or BCC: fields, you're going to have to open and parse ./HEADERS - the MIMEDefang variables will only have the SMTP Envelope Headers, not the Message Headers.

Anyway, I'd have some list of your internal mail server IP addresses, perhaps in a hash:

%OurIPs = (   "10.1.2.3", 1, "192.168.11.11", 0 );

Where the Key is the IP address and the Value is a boolean indicator as to if E-Mail sent from that relay should get a footer.

Then, probably down in filter_end, you'd have code like this:

if ( exists($OurIPs{$RelayAddr}) )
   {
   # The sending host is one of our hosts, we need to think about footers
   if ( $OurIPs{$RelayAddr} )
       {
        # The boolean flag indicates the sending host is eligible to have
        #   footers appended
        ....
        parse ./HEADERS and add footers as appropriate
        ....
        }
     else
       {
        # This particular internal host is exempt from having footers appended
       }
else
    {
    # This isn't even our host
    # Run E-Mail thru SpamAssassin instead
    }

Again, this is more a Perl programming issue, and might be better-placed in the Perl TA.

The Perl TA is at --> https://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Programming_Languages/Perl/

The problem with that solution is that not all hosts are internal, so are not coming from specified relay address's, we use authentication on the sending side outside of our network.

Im not a perl programmer and someone else made up the code ive posted here. Any more ideas?

I don't understand how the solution I proposed won't work. So you strip out the check for whether or not the host is internal - big deal. The general approach is still the same - somewhere down in filter_end, you need to open and examine the ./HEADERS file (where MIMEDefang stores the Message Headers), parse out the "To:", "CC:" and "BCC:" lines, and apply your business logic to the decision to add the footer.

As I said above, this is really a Perl programming issue (how to write the code) as opposed to a sendmail or OS issue. I really think you should take it over to the Perl TA, and in your Question, you need to include (or link to) the appropriate bits of MIMEDefang documentation.

You might also try the MIMEDefang website --> http://www.mimedefang.org

They have a Wiki with code examples, and also a mailing list where this would be a good question.

I've written my own MIMEDefang filter, but mine is geared towards anti-SPAM, and doesn't really get into the type of Message Header examination you need. But MIMEDefang is the correct tool for the job.

Issue resolved with the following code ...

    my $text_footer;
    my $html_footer;

    # Add footer to outgoing emails
    if ($Sender =~ /contractpoint.co.uk/) {
        $text_footer = "";
        $html_footer = "";
    }

    if ($Sender =~ /tradeonlyplumbing.co.uk/) {
        $text_footer = "";
        $html_footer = "";
    }

    if ($Sender =~ /tradeonlyplumbing.com/) {
        $text_footer = "";
        $html_footer = "";
    }

    if ($Sender =~ /williams.uk.com/) {
        $text_footer = "";
        $html_footer = "";
    }

    if ($Sender =~ /mickwilliams/) {
        $text_footer = "";
        $html_footer = "";
    }

    if ($Sender =~ /raystafford/) {
        $text_footer = "";
        $html_footer = "";
    }

    # Do a final check and if ALL the addresses are internal, clear the headers

    my $one_external = 0;

    foreach $recip (@Recipients) {
        if ( !(($recip =~ /tradeonlyplumbing/) or ($recip =~ /williams.uk.com/) or ($recip =~ /contractpoint.co.uk/)) ) {
                $one_external = 1;
        }
    }

    if ( $one_external == 0 ) {
        $text_footer = "";
        $html_footer = "";
    }

    # We have to look at adding footers to *ALL* mails as we don't know if an 'internal' mail is
    # coming from an internal relay or interface.

    if ( $text_footer ne "" ) {
        append_text_boilerplate($entity,$text_footer,0);
    }

    if ( $html_footer ne "" ) {
        append_html_boilerplate($entity,$html_footer,0);
    }

Considering the Asker posted to the MIMEDefang mailing list as I suggested in one of my Comments, I don't see that a refund of points is appropriate.

No solution was provided, and the MIMEDefang mailing list also did not come up with anything, I had an external support company come up with the above solution.

*shrug* Whatever.