[cobalt-users] Re: Klez virus, sircam virus

[Charlie Summers <charlie@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:14 AM -0400 5/4/02, Michael Tubbe is rumored to have typed:

> On May 3, 2002 11:11 pm, you wrote:
> > For the lame and infirm <me> where/how to we installthat scriptie to get it
> > to work... Would be nice to get rid of all this stuff!
>
> Yes, more info would be appreciated.  I'm getting quite a few virus emails
> now.  (They fail, and then they come back to the Postmaster -- me.)

   http://www.procmail.org/

   Again, I need to note that you have to ignore Sun's salesmen who tell you
Cobalt machines administer themselves. You need to make a commitment to
learning about how the server's software operates, and procmail is no
exception. procmail is way cool...but you should at least understand the
difference between /etc/procmailrc and ~/.procmailrc before you muck around
with system-wide recipies that can bite you in the rear.

   These would be REALLY bad recipies to cut-and-paste without an
understanding of what's going on...at least learn to set the LOGFILE and
VERBOSE variables, since you're likely to need them for debugging.

         Charlie (who never uses a Windoze box to access Internet email)