At 2006-01-21 00:02, Ferry Schouten wrote: >On 20-01-2006, Jaap van Ganswijk wrote: >> The Fatcity list server doen't forward >> much of the original header information so >> you can't do much detective work based on it. >> You'll have to leave that to the list manager >> (Bruce Bergman). He has developed extensive >> filters to weed out all kinds of spam, but >> sometimes one slips through. > >True. Unless Bruce adds a filter rule that plonks every message with less than >n lines of text AND a binary attachment, many worm infested messages /will/ >end up on the list. > >> It's probably best to ignore them. > >Or make your own mailfilter do the (ignore) work for you. >(silently delete if To="[email protected]" > AND Content-Type="multipart/mixed;") >Also gets rid of muppets, who just don't get the "no attachments" part of the >posting rules ;-)
I filter most mails with attachments that contain Windows executables already on the server of my provider, using procmail. You can see a file that is Unix-linked to my actual procmail file (so you always see the actual version) here: http://www.xs4all.nl/~ganswijk/procmailrc.txt If anyone is interested in doing the same: Your internet provider must host on a Unix/Linux server and you must have full access to your directories using FTP for example. Make a file called .forward in your root directory and let it contain only one line with only '|procmail' on it. This will redirect all incoming email to the procmail program. Then copy my procmailrc.txt file and rename it to .procmailrc in your root directory. Please note that all lines starting with '#' are comment lines and some former data lines have been commented out. When you want to monitor the filter first, enable the LOGFILE line again. This will log everything procmail does. You can also enable the DEST line again and then commenting out the /dev/null lines and commenting in the lines below each of that. That will not delete the filtered out emails but put them per filter category in a file. You can also have sendmail put them each as a separate file in their own directory, by making sure that the redirection file already exists and is a directory. For more details please consult the sendmail Unix manual or ask here. Please note that I also filter out emails with foreign (mainly Asian) character sets. Greetings, Jaap -- Author: Jaap van Ganswijk INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Hosting, San Diego, California -- http://www.fatcity.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB CHIPDIR-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
