Re: reliability of 3rd party filters with postfix?

On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 02:59:26PM +1000, Dimitry Peisakhov wrote:

> cat | $SPAMASSASSIN -x | $SANITIZER \
> $ANOMY_CONF 2>>$ANOMY_LOG > out.$$ || \
> { echo Message content rejected; exit $EX_UNAVAILABLE; }
>
> $SENDMAIL "$@" < out.$$
>
> exit $?
>
>
>
> Now, this setup works fine, but if lets say spamassassin were to have some
> sort of problem and lets say would go into an infinite loop or someting,
> then mail would never get passed back to postfix for delivery, and be
> basically going into a black hole?
>

No. The script has to return a success exit code before Postfix deletes
the mail from the queue.

--
Viktor.

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