On Friday 05 September 2003 10:40 am, HaywireMac wrote: > On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 15:24:28 +0100 > > Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > And above all I would like to know how to filter out to safety > > (before they get to the machine) all attachments ending in .pif, .exe, > > .bat and .com. I know, I know, if I didn't spend so much time reading > > here I could get fetchmail, postfix and the rest up and running :-( > > I'm not sure anything like that exists. Postfix and Procmail only deal > with stuff that's already on your machine, although, if, like I am, you > are running a seperate mailserver (ya ya, Twiki howto, I know I know), > then it will at least prevent any of those nasties from reaching your > workstation. The nkvir procmail recipe that Stephen linked to a ways > back is great for this. > > Mailfilter will catch stuff before it reaches your machine, but cannot > really deal with attachments. > > Does POPFile do this?
If you are looking to filter before you download the message, the answer is no, to my knowledge. Before you download the entire message, there is no way to know if there is an attachment or not, the headers do not tell you that. You have to filter after downloading the body. You can filter before it gets to your inbox though. Or, if you have a shell account at the ISP, you can run spamassassin or procmail there and delete from the mail server but it will still get to their machine. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer
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