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Re: Halting delivery on program failure

2006-03-23 05:02:22
On Mar 23, 2006, at 11:37 AM, Jim C. Nasby wrote:

On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 10:54:10AM +0100, Klaus Johannes Rusch wrote:
Jim Nasby wrote:

I just ended up with a bunch of spam in my inbox because  
Spamassassin
went belly-up for some reason. In my procmail log I see:

procmail: Program failure (-25) of "spamassassin"

What I don't understand is why procmail continued delivering the
email instead of bouncing back to the mailer/exiting with an error.
I'm calling spamassassin like this:

:0fw : spamassassin.lck
| spamassassin


You can check if the spamassassin step was successful by looking  
for the
SpamAssassin headers, e.g.

:0fw: spamassassin.lck
| spamassassin

:0
* !^X-Spam-Status:
{
   EXITCODE=75
}

Ahh, outstanding! I new there had to be an easy way to do that.

Actually, that doesn't seem to be doing what I'd want... namely,  
delivery still continues after that rule. Is there a way to make  
procmail 'pull the plug' at that point? Or would I need to do  
something like wrap everything else in another rule?
--
Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect                decibel(_at_)decibel(_dot_)org
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