Question about Mutt macro and output

[David Relson]

At 09:44 AM 3/19/03, Boris 'pi' Piwinger wrote:

>David Relson wrote:
>
> >>        :0fw
> >>        | bogofilter -u -e -p
> >>
> >>        :0e
> >>        { EXITCODE=75 HOST }
> >
> > Exitcode==75 tests for X_TEMPFAIL (see sysexits.h).

I should have said "The test 'EXITCODE=75' is testing for a temporary 
failure so that procmail will run bogofilter again at a later time.  The 
value '75' is return code EX_TEMPFAIL as defined in /usr/lib/sysexits.h".

>What do you mean by test? The EXITCODE is set.

If bogofilter fails (for whatever reason), it can be useful to have 
procmail retry.  Early this year, I had several occasions when some weird 
BerkeleyDB condition caused bogofilter to bomb, making a retry 
useful.  Without the retry code, the messages were delivered without 
X-Bogosity lines.  I noticed the problem when obvious spam went into a user 
folder rather than the bogofilter-spam folder.

> > The test is useful and
> > should always be in your procmail recipe
>
>Never used it.

Ideally it's not necessary...


>pi