[Esd-l] Re: Dropped "F" problem (fwd)

[John D. Hardin]

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 22:45:06 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer at zanshin.com>
To: John D. Hardin <jhardin at impsec.org>
Cc: Procmail Users List <procmail at Lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
Subject: Re: Dropped "F" problem

On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, John D. Hardin wrote:

> Anybody else care to see if they can duplicate the "dropped F" problem
> by piping the message through a filter that fails?

This has previously been reported as a way to reproduce the error.  It 
isn't the only way (several spamassassin users have reported the bug on
the spamassassin-talk mailing list, and they don't have failing filters
involved), but it's the most reliable way.

I have reason to believe that this is fixed in the 3.23pre snapshot from
last November, but I haven't ever received clear confirmation of that.

ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/unix/mail/procmail/testing/snapshot.tar.gz

(ftp.procmail.net seems to be unreachable today.  In fact, I can't even
DNS resolve it.)