Bogofilter Behaviour on encountering error is unacceptable.

[John G Walker]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:40:37 +0000 John G Walker
<johngwalker at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

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

And I suppose I should have asked if you were testing for error codes.
Always a good thing to do,

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 All the best,
 John