En Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:19:39AM +0800, Holden Hao escribio:
#_ Thanks for your help. I tried your suggestion but it was not successful.
#_ Balsa acted weird after I tried filtering.
#_ BTW, is it okey for the mail to be stored in /var/spool/mail/"username" ?
#_ Is'nt this a temporary placeholder for mails only and that it should be in
#_ /home/"username"/mail/inbox?
#_
#_ Holden
Yes, that is where Mutt, pine, balsa, etc. will retrieve the mail and
transfer it to your home inbox.
I think Balsa has it's own filtering system. Just like Kmail, Netscape,
outlook expre$$, etc. I'm not sure, but does Balsa use a standard mbox
format or does it use it's own kind of mailbox format?
Procmail is usefull for MUA's that do not have their own filtering
capabilities like mutt, pine, elm, etc. Actually procmail is useful for so
many other things, like spam filtering, and renaming attachments so they
don't run automatically. Read
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue62/okopnik.html; for spam filtering with
procmail.
Also check this out.
subject: Email Security through Procmail 1.97
added by: John Hardin on Jan 09th 2000, 22:42
license: GPL
category: Console/Firewall and Security
homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/909922332/
download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/909922332/
description:
Email Security through Procmail attempts to address the trend towards
"enhancing" email clients with support for active content, which
exposes end-users to many and varied threats, by "sanitizing" email:
removing obvious exploit attempts and disabling the channels through
which exploits are delivered. Facilities for detecting and blocking
Trojan Horse exploits and worms are also provided.
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