On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, William Thompson wrote:
> How about just ignoring the filter if it failed?
You certainly can't do that! In general, email could then be vanishing
without any evidence as to why. Remember, messages *pass through* a
transport filter; if it screws up, the message is probably destroyed.
> or maybe a "filter_failure_ok" option?
I'm afraid I am not convinced that this is a good idea. If certain kinds
of failure are acceptable to a particular application, then that
application should be taking appropriate decisions. As has been pointed
out, this can be achieved by a wrapper if necessary.
Philip
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