BF + procmail fails ungracefully

[Greg Louis]

On 20051215 (Thu) at 1628:43 -0800, Greg McCann wrote:

> It seems that having mail delivery fail just because Bogofilter is
> out of sorts is a bit of an overreaction.  I would rather receive
> un-bogofiltered mail than nothing at all.  I'm wondering if it would
> be possible for bogofilter to handle failure a tad more gracefully. 
> Instead of failing silently (other than the procmail log entries
> which might go unnoticed for some time) and delaying mail delivery,
> why not let the mail go through, and perhaps add a warning to the
> subject line?
> 
:0HB:
* ? /usr/bin/bogofilter -d /ext/bogo
/your/spam/quarantine

The above stanza quarantines mail iff bogofilter "succeeds," ie returns
zero (which it does for spam).  If it returns 1 (nonspam) or 2 (fatal
error) the mail falls through to the delivery recipes.

I wouldn't want a warning sent to my users, but I'll admit it would be
nice to get one sent to postmaster.  However, I do find the errors at
my month-end review, which is good enough for me.

HTH
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