Filtering with Procmail / security question.

Jason Crowe jcrowe at cmuonline.net
Thu Aug 14 21:03:12 CDT 2003


Check this out . Great antivirus for use with procmail. :)

http://agriroot.aua.gr/~nikant/nkvir-rc

Jason

ismgr wrote:

> Can someone give me a quick tip (if there is one) on how to setup a 
> procmail recipe to strip attachments (in particular executables to 
> catch most of these stupid viruses)?
>
> I seem to remember some type of .procmailrc file having something like:
>
> :0
> ^x-application-octet-stream
> /dev/null
>
> but I know there's more to it or it's something to that effect to just 
> simply kill that message.
>
> Can someone help me out with a quick recipe for stripping that?
>
> Also, I need to know any suggestions you all might have for securing 
> this box if it ends up being used as a mail server.
>
> Anything in the way of services not to run, shell access (like don't), 
> etc?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Chris
>
>
>
>




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