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[Greg Foster <address@concealed>]

Is there anyone here who may have some insight into this issue I sent earlier?

Thanks!

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Greg Foster
IT Services, Enterprise Systems Group
G20A Stright Hall
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Indiana, PA 15701
724-357-2986

"There are 10 kinds of people: those who understand binary and those who 
don't"

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From: Greg Foster <address@concealed>
Sent: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 8:39 AM
To: address@concealed
Subject: Custom condition / auto-reply question

Hello everyone,

I have a need to provide the ability to generate an auto-reply to messages 
sent to a particular list based on time of day/day of week, of which I have 
working.  In addition, I need to be able to forward a copy of the message 
that meets the criteria passed to the custom condition to an email address 
that is also a parameter passed to the customer condition.

I've been able to capture the message body of email messages that are plain 
text, non-multipart messages.   However, when I send a multipart message 
(simple text message with an attachment), I'm not able to capture the body of 
the message for forwarding.

I have the scenario setup such that is calls my custom condition twice.  Once 
with a parameter that passes [msg_body] and another time that passes 
[msg_part->body].  It is my understanding that you need to check both of 
these due to one containing the non-multipart message body and the other 
containing the multipart message body.   These are the last parameters passed 
to my custom condition where I shift all the other parameters off and capture 
the remaining (message body) data in a variable and process it based on 
whether it's an array or not:

    foreach my $part (@parts) {

        $body .= ref $part eq "ARRAY" ?  join " ", @{$part} : $part;

    }

In the end, $body will be empty if the message body is multipart.

For debugging purposes, I even have my perl code dumping that contents of 
those parameters to a file and any time I send a multipart message, the dump 
file is empty.

So, some questions:

- Is my understanding of the [msg_body] and [msg_part->body] correct as far 
as one containing the non-multipart message body and the other contain the 
multipart message body?

- Is my code to process the body content passed to my custom condition 
correct, or am I missing something?

- Is there an easier way to forward a copy of a list message to another user 
using Sympa functions?  Perhaps I'm over thinking this by trying to rebuild 
the message to forward it to another user?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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Greg Foster
IT Services, Enterprise Systems Group
G20A Stright Hall
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Indiana, PA 15701
724-357-2986

"There are 10 kinds of people: those who understand binary and those who 
don't"