-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Keld J�rn Simonsen wrote: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 11:29:10PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
> > Yes, I just got 500 emails today with the sobits.f virus, on a normal > client system, just for me, and then another 500 messages for me > telling me that I have sent viruses to them, or email lists that I > administer have sent email viruses to them. And I have to investigate > much of this because I am moderating a number of lists and furthermore I > pretend to be on holidays... :-( > > I would like if I could at least prevent the stupid messages that I have > sent viruses, when this is forged. These are commercial, proprietary, expensive anti-virus filters, which do bad things by default (I am not sure if they can be configured any better). amavis-ng/amavisd-new for example does the right thing, never replying to the sender of an infected mail. > And I am not the only one in this mess. It is frontpage news on every > newspaper here in Denmark. They say that about 1 out of 3 emails are > sobit.f on a number of big installations here. Wuld be nice if my POP3 > connection could filter it away. Would also improve my bandwidth. > > So I am mostly looking for a solution for POP3 kind of users - then > novice users that Mandrake usually make their defaults for. > > > How can I filter it for POP3 (I use it via fetchmail)? Ideally before you run fetchmail, there are some pre-downloading POP3 deleters (savemymodem?), but I haven't used them. Regards, Buchan - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/SpR2rJK6UGDSBKcRAkVqAJwO6765hGgkP6SmGAfesyVc/Ap1VgCgnr0c Pr5at/hHywHzoKQkv6xXB+E= =Mq0S -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ***************************************************************** Please click on http://www.cae.co.za/disclaimer.htm to read our e-mail disclaimer or send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a copy. *****************************************************************
