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[Dave Lovelace]

Clark, Aaron wrote:
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> Okay I'm almost there. I have a filtermail.sh script that Postfix calls when
> it receives a message and pass it through bogofilter. I then have the script
> grep for X-Bogosity:yes and redirect it using Postfix's sendmail to a SPAM
> mailbox. However after it redirects the SPAM the original message is sent to
> the deferred queue with Temporary Failure. I would assume this would hurt
> performance as all SPAM messages get placed in this queue and retry
> delivery. 
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> Anyone have any thoughts on this? 
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Here's a guess.  bogofilter returns a nonzero exit code if it classifies
the message as spam, zero if it classifies it as non-spam.  You're then
running grep & some other stuff, which has its own exit code.
I'd guess that whatever in Postfix is calling this is looking for particular
exit codes to say what happened, & it's getting something that says
there was a temporary failure.  You probably need to change that.  (However,
conceivably doing so will cause the message to be delivered somewhere.)

I don't know anything about Postfix, so I don't have any better idea
of what's going on.

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