Re: error writing to filter (bogofilter)

guys,

A quick - hopefully not final - summary from a layman's
perpective.

* Christian Ebert on Thursday, June 13, 2013 at 12:08:55 +0100
> After an upgrade to Mac OS 10.8.4 (64bit) from 10.5.8 (32bit) I
> get the following error for _some_ messages:
> 
> temporary failure.
> Command output: maildrop: error writing to filter.
> /usr/local/bin/maildrop: Unable to filter message.
> 
> The offending rule is rather bog standard:
> xfilter "/usr/local/bin/bogofilter -u -e -p"
> 
> Trying the bogofilter suspect on an offending message however
> seems to cause no problems:
> 
> $ bogofilter -u -e -p < testbogomsg 1>/dev/null
> $ echo $?
> 0
> 
> Of course I recompiled all involved programs, like maildrop,
> bogofilter, tokyocabinet.
> 
> What could be the problem?

With the friendly help of Sam, Matthias and David (from
bogofilter) it looks like this:

maildrop refuses to write more than ca 40kb via xfilter - that's
basically it.
If it is not only my machine, probably Mac OS >= 10.7 is affected
(64bit, clang).

I can offer to try patches - but only off and on during the next
10 days, if at all. Real work and life begs, and I brought up my
old procmail config reasonably up to speed - peppered with the
appropriate { EXITCODE=75 HOST } - to keep my email going. Still
interested in pursuing the maildrop hobby though.

Thanks.

Christian

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