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2.10.5 Maidag Scripting

Maidag can use global or per-user mail filters to decide whether to deliver the message, and where to deliver it. As of Mailutils version 2.2, such mail filters may be written in the following languages:

Mail filters to use are specified using ‘script’ configuration statement. The following meta-symbols can be used in its argument:

~
%h

Expands to the recipient home directory.

%u

Expands to the recipient user name.

By default, a filename extension decide which scripting language will be used. User can alter the choice using ‘language’ configuration statement. For example:

 
language "python"
script "~/.maidag-py-filter"
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