Re: Squid 2.5 new mail_program feature proposal

Hello Serassio,

Sunday, August 7, 2005, 23:32:03, Serassio Guido wrote:

Well, I created mail.cmd which is on PATH for account I use to run
SquidNT service. It works fine for me (I intentionally crashed squid
to test). The mail.cmd script contains only one line:

@postie -t -host:mail.tushino.com %*

Look http://www.infradig.com/postie/index.shtml for info on postie
command line MTA.

> I know that Squid 2.5 is feature freezed, but I would like to add a
> little new feature very useful for the Windows port and may be for
> other platforms:

> A "mail_program" configuration option in squid.conf that allows to
> specify the program that squid will be use to send fatal reports by mail.

> I have attached the proposed patch.

> I have used an eol type instead of a string type, this allow to
> specify not only the program name, but command line options too.
> For example, on Windows I have used something like:
> mail_program c:/squid/libexec/mailsend.exe -smtp smtp.tld.com -d
> tld.com -f squid@tld.com -sub "Squid failure" -t

> I will add an identical feature to Squid 3.0.

-- 
Best regards,
 Andrey Shorin