On 28 January 1998, Lee McLoughlin proclaimed:
> I've read throught filter.txt and haven't found a way to do this.
>
> What I'd like to do is run an external filter program from my .forward
> over incoming email to decide if its spam and use the exit code (or
> output?) in a conditional. This is to decide wether to junk the message
> or use the remaining rules in my .forward.
I seem to recall that this sort of thing isn't possible with the present
filter system, as all the output of the filter is, is a list of
addresses (including files and pipes) to direct, rather than actually
executing the pipe /during/ the filter processing. If you needed this,
you'd probably have to set a global procmail somehow (not sure precisely
how though).
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