Hi,
I like this Idea and would go a step further, creating a checksum on an
incoming message and save it in the messages table. On reconstruction
check this checksum and don't push the mail to the customer if this
checksum does not match. Maybe retry the reconstruction several times and
log a message.
This shouldn't be too hard to implement and would prevent user complaints.
Paul, how long do you need and how much would it cost?
I'm pretty sure Haralds company and I would pay for this feature.
regards,
Harald
Am .07.2014, 16:32 Uhr, schrieb Reindl Harald (mobile)
<h.rei...@thelounge.net>:
Hi Paul
i would love a additional column in the message table containing the
sha1 sum of the message before it get splitted in mime-parts or maybe
better a own table with message-id and checksum and ignore that
functionality if this table don't exist
that would offer a option for dbmail-util check reconstruction of
current stored messages and by ignore old ones not having that value no
compatibility break
maybe that verification could go in a small new binary outside
dbmail-util with a few options like limit the number of verified
messages and specify a date range and produce a csv like output with
userid, mailboxid, date and subject and last but not least integrity
check of a specific message id
that would greatly improve debugging / verification and in case of a
complete raw message by a client that could also optionally calculated /
verified and mismatch logged in the maillog to get some valuable
Information in case of unpredictable bugs like the current
reconstruction under load
surely it needs resources on the server, hence the idea of a separate
table to enable that behaviour but at the end of the day it gives us the
opportunity to have an insight in overall integrity and early detection
of regressions, their impact, easy confirmation of bugfixes by knowing
the hash of the original message, and messages known to be broken before
the proposed fix
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