On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 04:02:11PM -0400, Larry Gilson wrote: > I have been trying to understand the advantages and disadvantages of using > the shell script method (like that employed by SecuritySage) and the > Procmail method as a content_filter for Postfix. Can someone lend an expert > opinion? Does anyone feel that one method is more flexible than another?
I don't know if I qualify as "expert," but I did start off using a shell script and switched to invoking procmail directly because if one of the processes launched by the shell hangs (which did happen to me, when razor1 was still in use and the razor server was down), there's no way that I know of for the parent shell to realize this and just dump the mail back out unfiltered. With procmail, as long as you set a timeout shorter than Postfix's child process timeout, you should be safe. > Personally, I find the setup more difficult for piping to a shell script. So did I. > On the other hand, Procmail is probably more difficult to learn. It is a bit on the esoteric side, but once you are familiar with it (and have carefully read the man pages many times) it becomes pretty simple. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
