Re: Safely executing your mail filter?

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Hi,

* Robert Nicholson <[email protected]> [2004-01-19 09:25]:
>So all incoming mail that comes to my domain gets put via qmail into a=20
>perl script and custom filtering is performed.
>
>Occasionally an error makes it's way into the perlscript and it fails=20
>to run. When this happens I lose email.
>
>I would like to ensure that this doesn't happen.

Try this:
    audit.pl || exit 75

More useful would be a way to capture Perl's mocking and feed it to
the MTA; I'm not sure whether this solution does that. Take care
though that 75 (EX_TEMPFAIL) is returned and the mail will be
deferred, not dumped.


Thorsten
--=20
It is exactly because markets are amoral that we cannot
leave the allocation of resources entirely to them.
    - George Soros

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