made some progress i think.... based on the exim system filter that i found here:
ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/filter/system_filter.exim and adding the following to my /etc/exim.conf file: message_filter = /etc/exim/system_filter.exim message_body_visible = 5000 exim seems to be rejecting messages that contain potentially harmful payloads... now i just need to modify this a little more to do away with the current junk... and then a little something to take out any HTML garbage! -dylan on 03.9.21 10:55 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] was reported to have writen: > hi dylan, > > On Sun 21 Sep 03, 12:03 PM, dylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> 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 > > heh. i'm at the exim.org site right now, going over their mailing list > archives. i'm seeing lots of relevent stuff. the question is whether i > can force exim to drop a connection after it sees a 13 byte string, > rather than waiting for the whole multiple kilobyte message to be > transfered... > >> 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 > > whoever gets the answer first posts it. kay? :-) > > pete -- "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
