[Pymilter] exploding messages

[Eric S. Johansson]

(I hope folks don't mind my thinking aloud.  Hopefully it will 
illustrate features of pymilter one can use.)

As I described earlier, in camram, there can be either individual or 
aggregate filters.  a mail message may hit multiple individual or 
aggregate filters.  The message must be compared to each filter and will 
get a different rating as to whether or not it is spam.  At this point, 
the message will get different additional headers and therefore create 
multiple, almost identical, copies of the same message.

I think I'm comfortable with the deep copy replication and address 
partitioning.  The question is what's the best way to inject these 
messages back into the system without passing them through the camram 
filter again.

I'm beginning to think that I might want to not release a message back 
through milter but always output the message through the reinjection 
mechanism.

so the system will look something like:

external>>-->> sendmail(p1)..||
                            milter
                              ||
                        camram_pymilter
                              ||
                      filter and replicate
                              ||
                          reinject --> sendmail(p3)-->deliver

an external e-mail message is delivered to the input side of sendmail. 
The message is passed to the milter with corresponding camram filter. 
The messages filtered and replicated which is then passed to reinjection 
system which delivers it to (another?) sendmail which then delivers it.

Unless I'm very much mistaken, there does not seem to be any way to 
create and inject multiple copies at the milter level.

thoughts?

---eric