Re: procmail'ing for vbs attachments was Re: [cobalt-users] Babysitting

[Rik Thomas <rikt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 9 May 2000, Rob Evans wrote:
> 
> This looks like a very good idea.  But, I have two or three questions:
> 
> 1) Is there a way of notifying the recipient that this has been done to that
> particular mail item - either by tacking something onto the beginning (or
> end), or by adding another attachment, or with another mail item (less
> preferably, because it will not necessarily be kept near the original,
> depending on client sorting)?

I am sorry, I just don't follow your question.  If you are saying that you
would like text added to the email, then yes that is possible.  Just see
the procmail man page for help with that.  It is quite easy.  Most of our
users are aware of the problem and will recognized the email, so we didn't
add any warning.  We rendered the trojan practically  useless by adding
the txt extension.

> 
> 2) Can a converted copy also be sent to "admin" or some other mailbox, say
> "virusalert"?  I fear that /var/log/love.txt might become very large if the
> server is being bombarded, as would the mailbox I've just asked about.
> 

man log rotate  Just limit how large you will allow it to get.  Or you can
mail it to an administrator, or just don't copy it at all.

> 3) What permissions and ownership should be given to /etc/procmailrc?
> (reiterating Dom Latter's question)
> 
Needs to be readable by root only.


> Rob E.
> 
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