On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 19:39, Jason Joines wrote:
Chris Kassopulo wrote:
Greetings,
For the last two days I've gotten 100's of emails containing exe files. Bogus microsoft updates and patches. Each piece is around 150k which makes for a long download on dialup. Are there any filters that can delete emails at the server that have an exe attached.
I can put up with a little spam, but this is out of control.
TIA
Chris
I had this same problem, then checked the procmail mailing list (nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.procmail) to see if anyone had a good recipe for it.
I created a mail folder called null that is just a symbolic link to /dev/null and used this recipe that works great.
# swen
:0 B:
* ^ZGUuDQ0KJAAAAAAAAAB\+i6hSOurGATrqxgE66sYBQfbKATvqxgG59sgBLerGAdL1zAEA6sYBWPXV
null
I have set up procmail to move my incoming mail into a courier imap directory. At that time, I tried a simple (I thought) filter to move a few messages around. All went south very fast. So, given this complete procmail script that currently moves mail into my imap directory, what horror would I unleash if I added the above statements just above this rule (the only rule) in the file?
:0: ./
I am an adventurous type of guy. I just did not like when my e-mail went away when I did what I thought was a simple filter.
BTW, how did you come up with this rule? I do not see these numbers in the headers of the swen files I am getting. Of course, that would be too simple...
Roger Oberholtzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stockholm, Sweden http://www.surbrunn.net
I think you'd be fine adding it just above. I added it at the top of mine. It does some formail stuff, forwarding of copies, and puts hundreds of mailing list messages into folders afterwards. It's all still working.
I didn't come up with this. The folks on the procmail list (nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.procmail) did. I believe that is a string in the attachment, not from the headers.
You can also use /dev/null directly instead of the sym link. I used that at first due to some file locking issues that turned out to be unrelated.
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