On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Nick Marino wrote:

>
> Is there anyway to make a filter wait for an external command to complete
> before going ahead to the end of the script? Like an AV program scanning a
> message to complete before the script returns the wrong exit code from the
> command because it did not complete fast enough.
>
> I know this used to be an issue with mailproc.tab
>
> Seems as though this is happening to my av script. It detects that the
> message is a virus but still sends the message and a notice to the user that
> the message is infected, when it is supposed to just send the notice and
> return 4 to Xmail to discard the infected message but for some reason if
> there is alot of activity xmail goes ahead of the script and sends the
> message anyway and the script sends the notice email that the message is
> infected.

Filters are always syncronous, at least if you do not spawn a completely
different process from there, and you let it go w/out waiting for it.



- Davide

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