Shawn L Johnston wrote:
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 12:39, 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've been seeing this as well, around 600 emails since Thursday evening,
and our email server is slowing down because of it... Would running a
procmail script like this actually help the server deal with the
excessive traffic though?

Shawn

I think it would help a bit. Instead of having to process hundreds of ~150Kb messages and append them to the end of mail files, it just sends them into oblivion.



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