SYNOPSIS

mbot.conf

Description

mbot.conf is organized in sections where you can associate handlers to mails.
 

When mbot receive a mail, it will search for a section having a name which match the mail subject, then use the associated handler. So the name of the section will depend on the subject to use, and the parameters to be defined in this section will depend on the selected handler.
 

Here is a list of available handlers:
 

GoogleHandler

Used to perform some search with the well known search engine

UrlHandler

This one allows to download some url and attach its content to the return mail, with the mime type properly set.

NewsHandler

You can also send some news (with images) to mbot, it will fill your database with it. Currently supported RDBMs are PostgreSQL and MySQL, so you will have to choose between PgNewsHandler and MyNewsHandler.

PipeHandler

This one will make mbot call an arbitrary given command!

Default and common options

For each section we have a common option who's:
 

HANDLER

This option define for the current section which Handler will be used.
 

WHITE_LIST

Here we define which are the e-mail addresses allowed to use associated Handler. Only e-mails are stored here, like this: [email protected]. If no BLACKLIST is defined then the sender MUST be in this list otherwise mail will be rejected
 

BLACK_LIST

This list contains blocked emails. If sender is in this list, mbot won't be allowed to handle the request. If BLACK_LIST exists but not WHITE_LIST then every sender who's not in this list will be allowed to use this Handler. The format of the list is: ["[email protected]", "[email protected]"]. It's the same as WHITE_LIST.
 

Default options:
 

MBOT_ADDRESS

Email address used in the response.
 

LOG_LEVEL

Here we tell the Logger which level we want to log to syslog. Those levels are, from lower to higher, emerg - alert - crit - err - warning - notice - info - debug.
 

Handler's options

GoogleHandler's options:

HOST

This is the first for this Handler, it define the host for the searching engine.
 

BASE_URL

Define here the string that is usually used by the searching engine.
 

UrlHandler's options:

MAILSIZE

This option define the maximum mail size while mbot fetch url, sender will receive error message if mail size exceed this value.
 

ATTSIZE

For each attachement we define a size behind which mbot will raise an error.
 

NewsHandler's options:

HOST

This is the FQDN for the database server.
 

DB

The name of the database.
 

DB_USER

Username to add entry into database.
 

NEWS_TBL

Name of the table used by the Handler.
 

NEWS_TBLSQ

Name of the sequence table used by the Handler. Usually used with Postgres server's.
 

ATTACH_PATH

Used if sender attach an image with his mail, in this directory mbot will resize image to store it as normal and thumbnail size into database.
 

tnX and tnY

These are the options for thumbnail resizing.
 

SITE

This is a list in which mbot will select the site according to the receiver email. It will be used to feed the database.
 

PHOTO_TBL

This option is optionnal, it will be used only if you want to have pictures associated to news.
 

PHOTO_TBLSQ

Name of the sequence table used by the Handler for the photo table. Usually used with Postgres server's.
 

Note that there is no option for PipeHandler.
 

Bugs

Please report bugs to the authors.
 

See Also

mbot(1)
 

Authors

mbot was writen by Dimitri Fontaine [email protected] and Christophe Truffier [email protected].