In SIMS Digest #1383, Darrin Cardani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Well, one thing that would be nice is to be able to simply reject a
>message based on the subject....[stuff deleted]...automatically delete
>every email with the subject "I LOVE YOU" or "ANNA KORNAKOVA".....
>[remainder deleted]
There _are_ solutions that will do this, but they are _not_ freeware or
shareware (at least, not that I'm aware of). I know of a firewall that
has a "Mail Filtering" feature that can do this, although there are
limitations. It seems to me that this _may_ be possible with the latest
and greatest version(s) of "sendmail", as well.
A subsequent post from David Muszynski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked:
>Is this something that could be done with a script of some sort?
Yes, but you'd need _two_ mail servers (or, more correctly, Mail Transfer
Agents).
In SIMS terminology, the first MTA would deliver _all_ mail to a single
account
(i.e., "folder"). The script would scan the individual mail messages in the
folder
looking for suspect strings (like "I LOVE YOU", ".vbs", ".exe", etc.). If no
suspect
strings are found, the message would then be saved to the "Submitted" folder
of the second MTA, and deleted from the "common" account folder of the first
MTA.
The second MTA would then deliver the message to its final destination.
Hmmmm....I suppose you _could_ do this with a single copy of SIMS if all
inbound
mail was addressed to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", and the "real" destinations were of
the format "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". The script (after determining that the mail
was
"clean") would rewrite "domain1" to "domain2" proceed as above. Of course,
"domain2" should be unknown on the Internet.
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