thanks pete, i will take a look... so far i have been able to dig up the following sites:
http://www.exim.org/exim-html-3.20/doc/html/filter_toc.html http://colondot.net/mbm/mailfilter.shtml i will have to spend some time reading these before i am able to make sense of them... i tried a simple filter of my own design... however, all of my mail was getting stuck on the server... and had to use 'exim -qff -v' to get it back! dylan on 03.9.21 10:32 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] was reported to have writen: > hi dylan, > > the short answer (as in "i want these virus messages to stop RIGHT > NOW!") would be to use the procmail filter i posted. > > now, about a better solution. the postfix way of doing it is all over > the net. exim seems a bit tougher. that said, i find it excruciatingly > hard to believe that a popular MTA like exim would have such a gaping > hole in functionality. > > i found this: > > http://www.concretecow.com/denny/content/?article=2 > > but have not gotten it to work yet (there is a bit of a confusion what > the "name" of this computer is, for reasons that are longer than they > are interesting. that could be messing things up). > > hope that helps. if you figure this out one way or the other, i'd > appreciate it if you could post your results! > > pete > > > On Sun 21 Sep 03, 11:29 AM, dylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> have been lurking for the past few days paying close attention to this >> thread.... however, has anyone figured out how to reject these kind of >> messages at the door with EXIM ? >> >> i am using a combination of exim and courier (Maildir delivery), and was >> wondering if it would be possible to drop these messages with my >> configuration. >> >> also, is there any good way to strip HTML from email messages with exim? >> right now, i am running all messages through the a hack of a filter written >> in AWK. it removes a lot of the HTML, however, i can't use something like: >> >> awk ' >> {gsub(/</?[^>]*>/,"\n")} >> {print} >> ' >> ...because it mangles some important parts of the actualy messages, such as >> the TO and FROM headers.... >> >> any ideas for an EXIM user who is tired of these stupid email viruses >> wasting my time. >> >> >> thanks in advance, >> >> dylan >> >> >> >> >> on 03.9.20 4:44 PM, Rod Roark at [EMAIL PROTECTED] was reported to have >> writen: >> >>> On Saturday 20 September 2003 04:24 pm, Rod Roark wrote: >>>> On Saturday 20 September 2003 02:56 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>>> roland smith, whom i met while googling shared a *wonderful* procmail >>>>> recipe that catches windows viruses. >>>> [snip] >>>> >>>> Cool. I wonder if there's an easy way to get Postfix to >>>> notice these attachments at the front door, and drop the >>>> connection before all 150K or whatever have been received. >>> >>> Bwahahahaha! I found it! From this Slashdot posting: >>> >>> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=79337&cid=7013891 >>> >>> and your email, I deduced to create a file >>> /etc/postfix/rods_body_checks containing the following: >>> >>> /^TVqQAAMAAAAEAAAA\/\/8AALg/ REJECT Emails containing Microsoft executables >>> are prohibited from this server. >>> >>> and to add this line to my Postfix configuration file >>> (main.cf): >>> >>> body_checks=pcre:/etc/postfix/rods_body_checks >>> >>> It seems to work. :-) >>> >>> -- Rod >>> http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> vox-tech mailing list >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> "The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are >> evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." >> -Albert Einstein >> >> _______________________________________________ >> vox-tech mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech -- "The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." -Albert Einstein _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
