Re: [cobalt-users] Getting Mail Bombed!

[John Vedral <john.vedral@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's been hard for me to follow this thread as there were many solutions offered.  One that I did not see mentioned (but it may have been) 
is procmail.

Using procmail, you can filter mail based upon a large number of rules.  It is not very easy to figure out if you are not an administrator, but 
it is powerful and you can drop the mail right at the RaQ before it arrives in your mailbox.

Procmail is installed already on the RaQ's I have used and you can find some tutorial sites on the net to set up your rules.

Good luck.
John

----- Original Message -----
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 18:51:00 -0700
From: SteelHead <brk@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Getting Mail Bombed!

From: "Carrie Bartkowiak" <ravencarrie@xxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2001 5:02 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Getting Mail Bombed!
> On Sun, 22 Jul 2001 14:08:48 -0400, Lennie Core mumbled something
> like:
> >>Here's the fix !  You have a Virus probably !!
> >>http://www.mcafee.com/anti-virus/viruses/sircam/
>
> Lennie, Mike was wondering how to stop the mail from even getting
> onto the server - not from getting out of his home machine.
> Although the instructions you gave would be *very* helpful if he had
> opened one of the messages on his home machine.
>
> He's trying to block it so that it never even gets into his mailbox;
> so that the RaQ itself rejects the mail.
>
> --
> CarrieB
> Thanks for your quotes!
> I'm now trying to find a way to randomize them automagically so I can
> use them all...
>
Actually, the virus check-up has the nuggests of the solution.  compare the
information for the virus against the mail incoming and create a filter to
/dev/null