Bogofilter Behaviour on encountering error is unacceptable.

[John G Walker]

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 02:57:23 +0530 K T Ligesh <ligesh at lxlabs.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi folks,
> 
>  It seems that when bogofilter encounters some problems like the lack
> of the wordlist file, it just truncates the mail completely and sends
> only a couple of headers across. This is dangerous since if you have
> a large number of users, it is likely that there will be times when
> the wordlist files are missing. The behaviour that I am expecting is
> that it should just pass the entire message without doing anything on
> it.
> 
>  At least, according to me, the current behaviour makes bogofilter
> actually unusable since there is a very high chance of mails
> completely getting lost. Is there some configuration option that will
> tell bogofilter to return the entire message unaltered when it
> encounters an error?
> 
>  Thanks.
> 
> 

Can we have more details on this? What tests have you performed.

If this is correct, then it is disturbing news. But I think we'd all
like to have more information before we start panicking,


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 All the best,
 John