On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Henri van Riel wrote: > Hello all, > > I decided to give glst a try. Mostly out of curiosity 'cause I don't > receive that much spam at all... yet... :( > > First, it took me a while to figure out how to pass the --cfg > parameter to the glst binary but I've got that figured out now. At > first I tried this in my filters.pre-data.tab: > > "!aex" "/data/MailRoot/bin/glst --cfg /etc/glst.conf" "--mfile" "@@FILE" > > But now I know I had to set it up like this: > > "!aex" "/data/MailRoot/bin/glst" "--cfg" "/etc/glst.conf" "--mfile" "@@FILE" > > The errors (-97) went away but I didn't get the impression the filter > was working properly because all mail kept coming in without any > delay. I checked the filters logfile and it said: > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" > "2007-02-21 22:25:46" "pre-data" "" "0" "0" > "/data/MailRoot/bin/glst;--cfg;/etc/glst.conf;--mfile;/tmp/msrv8b40c.4140b.tmp;" > > > Looks ok... right? I mean, a first-time user wouldn't notice anything > wrong with that. At least I see a "0" now where it used to be "-97". > > I dumped the database I created by running glst manually once or twice > and it didn't list the emails that had come in. So I was sure > something had to be wrong. I then deleted the databases to see what > would happen but the filters logfile still didn't show any errors but > the database wasn't re-created either... > > I then changed to permissions on the directory (I have xmail running > as user mail) where the database resides and pronto, it works! > > Maybe it's an idea to let glst return some kind of return code when it > can't access or create the database...
GLST defaults to 0 as generic error code in case something happen. In that way messages can go through w/out causing any problems. You can use the "generr" command line or config option to change it. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
