I'm unable to get the simplest example to work with Email::Filter. This could be due to any number of non-Perl-related things, so if it's offtopic I apologize (and would love suggestions on where this question should be asked).

First off, the code:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Email::Filter;
my $mail = Email::Filter->new;
$mail->reject;

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The preceding code belongs to a user named 'embo' and is stored in the executable file /home/embo/bin/filt. Here is embo's ~/.procmailrc:

MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail
LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/from
LOGABSTRACT=all
VERBOSE=off

##### backup every incoming email
:0 c
backup

##### filter with Mail::Audit
:0fw
| /home/embo/bin/filt

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When I try to send a test email from adamm to embo on the same system using date | mail embo, here's what I see in /home/embo/Mail/from...

procmail: Program failure (100) of "/home/embo/bin/filt"
procmail: Rescue of unfiltered data succeeded
From adamm@localhost.localdomain  Sat Aug 14 21:30:22 2004
  Folder: /var/mail/embo                                              
+      658

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I would expect that email to bounce back to adamm, but adamm receives no bounce. embo still receives the email from adamm in his mail spool. Anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong? The pod for Email::Filter is pretty weak in terms of implementation. I also tried a ~/.forward file containing only |/home/embo/bin/filt; no luck there.

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